deplore

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈplɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈplɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈplo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈploə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: de‧plore

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.
   • Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.

     The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to

     stay with the patient after the disease is deplored; whereas, in

     my judgement, they ought both to inquire the skill, and to

     give the attendances, for the facilitating and assuaging of the

     pains and agonies of death.

• bewail
• condemn

• deplorable
• deploration

• deplore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deplore in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deplore at OneLook Dictionary Search

• redpole

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.