bemoan
verb (used with object)
to express distress or grief over; lament.
bemoaned
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past participleof bemoan.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bemoan.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bemoanverb (used with object)to express distress or grief over; lament.
Example Sentences
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I quit social media after visiting my college-aged daughter, who bemoaned the perception that young people are all anxious, isolated and socially stunted because of the stranglehold of social media and TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“When I left the military, I sort of lost my way,” Taske bemoaned in a thick Aussie accent.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
