bewails
Cries out over
Bewails is the third-person singular form of bewail, meaning to express deep sorrow or grief over something, often loudly or dramatically.
The word carries a literary or old-fashioned tone: She bewails her lost youth.
Someone who bewails a situation laments it with visible emotion, though the word sometimes implies excessive or theatrical mourning.
Expresses grief vocally
- bemoansExpresses grief about
- mournsGrieves for the dead
- grievesFeels deep sorrow
- keensWails in mourning
cries · moans · groans · weeps · sobs · deplores · rues · sorrows
Predetermined course of events
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
affliction · hardship · plight · doom · curse · ill-fortune · distress · tribulation
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- deathCessation of life
- funeralService honoring the dead
eulogy · condolences · loss · heartache · remembrance · obituary · shiva · wake
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- ruesFeels sorry for
self-reproach · penitence · shame · confession · atonement · mea culpa · compunction · apologizes
laments
Expresses grief vocally
keens · cries · moans · groans · weeps · sobs · deplores · rues · sorrows · pines
fate
Predetermined course of events
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
suffering · affliction · hardship · plight · doom · curse · ill-fortune · distress · tribulation · adversity
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- deathCessation of life
funeral · eulogy · condolences · loss · heartache · remembrance · obituary · shiva · wake · widow
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
rues · self-reproach · penitence · shame · confession · atonement · mea culpa · compunction · apologizes · laments