Lament

Definition

lament /lǝ'ment/ v ( fml ) ေၾကကြဲဝမ္းနည္းသည္။ ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြး သည္။ ညည္းညဴသည္။ ‘I wish we were back home,’ Celia lamented. ❍ He lamented the decline in standards. ❍ lament over one's dead wife. ❍ They lamented that so many hedges had been destroyed. n ၁။ ဝမ္းနည္းျခင္း။ There will be few laments for his passing. ၂။ ငိုခ်င္း။ တမ္းခ်င္း။ a funeral lament. ❏ lamentable /'læmǝntǝbl, lǝ'ment- / adj ေၾကကြဲ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာျဖစ္ေသာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္ရာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a lamentable loss of life/lack of foresight ❍ England's lamentable performance in the Test series. ❏ lamentably /-ǝbli/ adv ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာ။ ❏ lamentation / læmǝn'teÇʃn / n ၁။ [C] ငိုျမည္တမ္းတ ျခင္း။ ညည္းညဴျခင္း။ lamentations about the state of the world. ၂။ [U] ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြးမႈ။ ❏ lamented adj ( rhet or joc ) တသေသာ။ the last movie to be shown at the much lamented Academy Cinema.

Examples

1. Some older people lament the loss of close local communities.