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lament

noun
  1. a mournful poem
    “a lament for the dead”
    elegy
  2. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
    dirgecoronachrequiemthrenody
  3. a cry of sorrow and grief
    “their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward”
    lamentation
verb
  1. regret strongly
    deplorebewailbemoan
  2. express grief verbally
    “we lamented the death of the child”
    keen