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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Bewailed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Bewailing

To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.

Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour

bewail

the injury.

Shakespeare

Syn. – To bemoan; grieve. – See

Verb.

To express grief; to lament.

Shak.

Verb.

[be and wail.] To bemoan; to lament; to express sorrow for. It expresses deep sorrow; as, to bewail the loss of a child.

The true penitent bewails his ingratitude to God.

Verb.

To express grief.