n. & v.
--n.
1. a passionate expression of grief.
2 a song or poem of mourning or sorrow.
--v.tr. (also absol.)
1. express or feel grief for or about; regret (lamented the loss of his ticket).
2 (as lamented adj.) a conventional expression referring to a recently dead person (your late lamented father).
Phrases and idioms:
lament for (or over) mourn or regret.
Derivatives:
lamenter n. lamentingly adv.
Etymology: L lamentum