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Verb: bewail  bi'weyl
  1. Regret strongly
    "I bewail this hostile action"
    - deplore, lament, bemoan

Derived forms: bewails, bewailing, bewailed

Type of: complain, kick, kvetch [N. Amer], plain [archaic], quetch, sound off