lament

lamentar, llorar

Expresar una profunda tristeza o arrepentimiento por algo.

En inglés sencillo: To express deep sadness or regret about something.

• He lamented his friend's death.
• They lament the lack of affordable housing.
• She lamented that she had never learned to swim.

Cómo se usa: lament something (The residents lamented the loss of their local library.); lament that… (She lamented that the old trees had been cut down.)

Sinónimos: mourn, bemoan, bewail

Antónimos: celebrate, rejoice

Expresiones frecuentes: lament a loss, lament the lack, lament someone's death

lamento, lamentación

Palabras, canto o grito que expresan una tristeza o un arrepentimiento profundos.

En inglés sencillo: Words, a song, or a cry expressing deep sadness or regret.

• We heard her quiet lament.
• The song is a lament for the dead.
• Their laments filled the empty church.

Cómo se usa: lament for someone/something (The poem is a lament for his lost homeland.)

Sinónimos: lamentation, cry, dirge

Expresiones frecuentes: a sorrowful lament, lament for someone, a mother's lament