Usually means: Regretting something, often with distress.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ruing: Vocabulary.com
  5. ruing: Wordnik
  6. ruing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ruing: Wiktionary
  8. Ruing, ruing: Dictionary.com
  9. ruing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Ruing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Ruing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ruing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ruing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruing: 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.
▸ Also see rue





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