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DEPLORE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deplore ... he / she / it deplores
Past simple: deplored
Past participle: deplored
-ing form: deploring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Express strong disapproval of
Example:
We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deplore" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deplore"):
accurse; anathematise; anathematize; anathemise; anathemize; comminate; execrate (curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Regret strongly
Example:
we lamented the loss of benefits
Synonyms:
bemoan; bewail; deplore; lament
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "deplore" is one way to...):
complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They deplore that there was a traffic accident
Context examples:
Differences between relations are much to be deplored—but they are extremely general—and the great thing is, to be on the right side: meaning, I take it, on the side of the moneyed interest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His letters expressed how much he deplored it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And very much to be deplored it was, on all accounts!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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