deplore

UK /dɪˈploɹ/ US /dɪˈploɹ/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.

I deplore not having listened to your advice.

2

To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.

I deplore how you treated him at the party.

The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.

3

To regard as hopeless; to give up.

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.

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