deplore
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deplore
- /dɪˈploɹ/ US
- /dɪˈplɔː/ UK
- /dɪˈplo(ː)ɹ/
- /dɪˈploə/
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre (“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain.
verb deplores · deploring · deplored
- To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
- To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. I deplore how you treated him at the party.
- 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.
