Usually means: Regrets, laments, or feels sorrow.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. rues: Merriam-Webster
  2. rues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rues: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rues: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rue's, Rues, Rues, rues: Wordnik
  6. rues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Rues, rues: Wiktionary
  8. rues: Dictionary.com
  9. rues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Rues: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. rues: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rues: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rues: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rues: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rues: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rue as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rue)

noun:  (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
noun:  (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
verb:  (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
noun:  Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
noun:  A surname.
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