lament
luh ment
- n a cry of sorrow and grief
their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward - n a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- n a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- v express grief verbally
we lamented the death of the child - v regret strongly
we lamented the loss of benefits
- There was no one to listen to the pitiful laments of the stowaways who continued to wallow in squalor.
- His urgent, crescendoing lament during the prison-riot scene of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers raised eyebrows among qawwali purists (Khan himself admitted that he was disturbed .
- This is the now familiar lament of old media when it comes to online news.