Usually means: Lament deeply; express sorrow over.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bewail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bewail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bewail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bewail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bewail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bewail, bewail: Wordnik
  7. bewail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bewail: Wiktionary
  9. bewail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bewail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bewail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bewail, bewail: Dictionary.com
  13. bewail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bewail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bewail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bewail: Rhymezone
  17. Bewail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bewail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bewail: Free Dictionary
  20. bewail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bewail: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bewail: Legal dictionary

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verb:  To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.

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