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Definition of bemoan in English: bemoanverb bɪˈməʊnbəˈmoʊn [with object]Express discontent or sorrow over (something) 对…不满；哀叹，哀悼 it was no use bemoaning her lot 哀叹她的命运毫无用处。 Example sentencesExamples - As the nation bemoans the prospect of new tax rises, we may take consolation from the fact that we are not the first to suffer.
- This follows years of complaints from small shopkeepers and liberal commentators who bemoan supermarket's retail dominance.
- Mr Britton bemoans the location of the new hospital.
- In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight.
- He is passionate about theatre, but bemoans the pressures which it is put under in Britain, thanks to underfunding.
- Weil bemoans the fact that the ban was the only one of twenty-five commission recommendations adopted.
- He bemoans today's generation for not sharing that wish to make a difference but admits politics today ‘bores me completely’.
- The Times bemoans this development, acknowledging the commercial nature of Broadway theater, but wishing the stage itself could remain ad free.
- Like many writers, Phillips bemoans the way in which the publishing industry is now dominated by a handful of all-powerful conglomerates.
- He never once complained or bemoaned the cruel hand life dealt him.
- I've always bemoaned these losses, but never exactly mourned the loss of a station.
- Contemporary chroniclers based in England had a habit of bemoaning the cost and absence of results of such campaigns.
- Arjan bemoans our rapid consensus of opinion.
- Elizabeth loudly bemoans the tendency of the younger generation to career hop - ‘Just one was enough for us!’
- He frequently bemoans the absence of suitable role models for them.
- Despite the drawbacks, Anne said she truly wants to stay in the area but bemoans the lack of amenities for her kids.
- The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before.
- There has been a lot of complaining about it, a good deal of bemoaning our situation.
- Kenny bemoans the loss of that sense of community.
- It also bemoans the city's refusal to release the dossiers to the people discussed within them.
Synonyms lament, bewail, deplore, complain about, express regret about mourn, grieve over, express sorrow about, sorrow for, sigh over, cry over, weep over, shed tears over, wail over, keen over, beat one's breast about archaic plain over
OriginOld English bemǣnan 'complain, lament'. The change in the second syllable (16th century) was due to association with moan, to which it is related. Rhymesalone, atone, Beaune, blown, bone, Capone, clone, Cohn, Cologne, condone, cone, co-own, crone, drone, enthrone, flown, foreknown, foreshown, groan, grown, half-tone, home-grown, hone, Joan, known, leone, loan, lone, mephedrone, moan, Mon, mown, ochone, outflown, outgrown, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, rone, sewn, shown, Simone, Sloane, Soane, sone, sown, stone, strown, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, Tyrone, unbeknown, undersown, windblown, zone Definition of bemoan in US English: bemoanverbbəˈmōnbəˈmoʊn [with object]Express discontent or sorrow over (something) 对…不满；哀叹，哀悼 it was no use bemoaning her lot 哀叹她的命运毫无用处。 Example sentencesExamples - Weil bemoans the fact that the ban was the only one of twenty-five commission recommendations adopted.
- The young American bemoaned the wet and cold of the Pennines, disconcerted by their bleakness that inspired the Brontes more than a century before.
- In one isolated village the people weep and wail, bemoaning their plight.
- Contemporary chroniclers based in England had a habit of bemoaning the cost and absence of results of such campaigns.
- Arjan bemoans our rapid consensus of opinion.
- He bemoans today's generation for not sharing that wish to make a difference but admits politics today ‘bores me completely’.
- The Times bemoans this development, acknowledging the commercial nature of Broadway theater, but wishing the stage itself could remain ad free.
- He never once complained or bemoaned the cruel hand life dealt him.
- Like many writers, Phillips bemoans the way in which the publishing industry is now dominated by a handful of all-powerful conglomerates.
- He frequently bemoans the absence of suitable role models for them.
- Elizabeth loudly bemoans the tendency of the younger generation to career hop - ‘Just one was enough for us!’
- He is passionate about theatre, but bemoans the pressures which it is put under in Britain, thanks to underfunding.
- Mr Britton bemoans the location of the new hospital.
- This follows years of complaints from small shopkeepers and liberal commentators who bemoan supermarket's retail dominance.
- I've always bemoaned these losses, but never exactly mourned the loss of a station.
- Despite the drawbacks, Anne said she truly wants to stay in the area but bemoans the lack of amenities for her kids.
- Kenny bemoans the loss of that sense of community.
- There has been a lot of complaining about it, a good deal of bemoaning our situation.
- As the nation bemoans the prospect of new tax rises, we may take consolation from the fact that we are not the first to suffer.
- It also bemoans the city's refusal to release the dossiers to the people discussed within them.
Synonyms lament, bewail, deplore, complain about, express regret about
OriginOld English bemǣnan ‘complain, lament’. The change in the second syllable (16th century) was due to association with moan, to which it is related. |