n. 25B6; noun
the widow's laments : WAIL, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening.
a lament for the dead : DIRGE, requiem, elegy, threnody, monody; Irish keen; Scottish & Irish coronach; formal epicedium.
25B6; verb
the mourners lamented : MOURN, grieve, sorrow, wail, weep, cry, sob, keen, beat one's breast; archaic plain.
he lamented the modernization of the buildings : BEMOAN, bewail, complain about, deplore; protest against, object to, oppose, fulminate against, inveigh against, denounce.
celebrate.