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Webster 1913 Edition

Deplore

De-plore′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Deplored
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Deploring
.]
[L.
deplorare
;
de-
+
plorare
to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to
pluere
to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. déplorer. Cf. Flow.]
1.
To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
To find her, or forever to
deplore

Her loss.
Milton.
As some sad turtle his lost love
deplores
.
Pope.
2.
To complain of.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Syn. – To
Deplore
,
Mourn
,
Lament
,
Bewail
,
Bemoan
.
Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.

De-plore′

,
Verb.
I.
To lament.
Gray.

Webster 1828 Edition

Deplore

DEPLORE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. To howl; to wail.] To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and poignant grief for. We deplored the death of Washington.

Definition 2024

deplore

deplore

See also: déploré, déplore, and deploré

English

Verb

deplore ‎(third-person singular simple present deplores, present participle deploring, simple past and past participle deplored)

  1. (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
    I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
    The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
    I deplore not having listened to your advice.
  2. (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
    I deplore how you treated him at the party.
    Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.
  3. (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

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  • podreel

Spanish

Verb

deplore

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of deplorar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of deplorar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of deplorar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of deplorar.

Etymology

From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre ‎(“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre ‎(“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain.

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