bemoan
verb (used with object)
to express distress or grief over; lament.
bemoans
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present tense formof bemoan (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
He approves of strengthening some local restrictions but bemoans the "terrible cost" and wonders "for HOW LONG?"
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
Wall Street bemoans Mamdani’s win, Trump threatens Jay Powell again, and the Bezos-Sanchez wedding is flashy and splashy.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2025
She bemoans that she had to pay for her interpreter to manage treatment.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025
Here many a merchant his lost freight bemoans, And many a gallant ship has laid her bones.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
