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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bewail .
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Examples
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We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children.
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He bewailed Ireland's "credit-fuelled Ponzi scheme" economy of the last decade and accused fellow economist Patrick Honohan, the central bank governor, of committing "the costliest mistake ever made by an Irish person".
Barack Obama and the Queen to visit Ireland during its time of despair 2011
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We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children.
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We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children.
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A writer in the left-wing magazine Mother Jones recently bewailed that "in any other year [Toomey] would be among the most conservative candidates in the country," but in this one he "is on a glide path to take Arlen Specter's old Senate seat."
The Moderates of 2010 Matthew Kaminski 2010
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Mariner and Dag Daughtry, while the trio of partners raged and bewailed.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Journalists, most famously Margaret Hebblethwaite on BBC television, bewailed that "Rottweiler Ratzinger" now held the Keys of St Peter.
Alcuin Reid: We are Lucky this Pope is Ecclesiastically Incorrect 2009
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We cried, we rent our hair, we bewailed the fate of our children.
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Bunning reached some new climacteric of pathetic whining when he bewailed, on the Senate floor, the fact that his own filibuster had caused him to miss a big baseball game on TV.
Kara Vallow: Jim Bunning: Too Mean and Weird for the GOP 2010
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Bunning reached some new climacteric of pathetic whining when he bewailed, on the Senate floor, the fact that his own filibuster had caused him to miss a big baseball game on TV.
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