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单词 deplore
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Definition of deplore in English:

deplore

verb dɪˈplɔːdəˈplɔr
[with object]
  • Feel or express strong condemnation of (something)

    强烈反对;谴责

    we deplore all violence

    我们谴责一切暴力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In deploring pronunciation, Mr Johnstone is right in saying there is no lexicographical or etymological reason for the change of consular to ‘conshular’, but he forgets what sounds are involved.
    • While the old man wandered around the castle at Dux, deploring the impertinence of the servants (they laughed at his old-fashioned cloth-of-gold coat and elaborate bow), he was composing a work of huge historical interest.
    • My husband deplores those court trials that weight the sorrow of the survivors in sentencing the convicted.
    • As she put it, ‘instead of deploring our lack of homogeneity, we should glory in it.’
    • If viewers deplore dearth of quality films, some producers bemoan lack of quality film viewers.
    • Jay does not flinch from deploring two of the biggest consequences of the penetration of market forces to almost every part of the globe; the threat to the environment and the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor.
    • The statement that they had not left the meeting but left to attend to other business was deplored as a perversion of the facts.
    • He said: " The council deplores all acts of violence ".
    • It therefore deplores any material which indicates violence against women and children could ever be acceptable.
    • ‘Fifty percent of college students couldn't tell you what decade the Civil War was in,’ he announced at one point, deploring the state of contemporary education.
    • Khomeini, deploring the moral degradation he saw around him and the people's lack of will and moral fibre to combat it, pledged his opposition ‘as long as there is blood in my veins.’
    • This dialogue grows out of an article in the April 6 issue of The New Yorker deploring the state of movies today.
    • They will utter platitudes deploring the brutal murder of a pensioner; but what gets their adrenalin pumping is knee-jerk, liberal indignation at any proposals to make life hard for criminals.
    • Its main purpose is to deplore the use of violence in this dispute.
    • It was at this point that the performance of the Ministry of Culture came under attack, with Hegazi, for one board member, deploring the deterioration of the film industry since the 1960s.
    • The official condemnations of the bombing, therefore, focus not on deploring the act but on lamenting the consequences.
    • I can almost hear the harrumphing complaints that politicians have always spent as much time deploring the wickedness of opponents as praising the virtues of their policies - and so they have.
    • The article neither endorsed nor deplored the idea, but simply noticed the plain strength of feeling displayed by those who wrote to him on the subject.
    • He acknowledges a common humanity, denouncing modern race slavery in the strongest terms and deploring the disappearance of Indian civilizations into a historical void in which their cultural meanings would be forever lost.
    • Henry's own, lofty response, more in sorrow than in anger, was to deplore the muckraking of his opponents.
    Synonyms
    abhor, be shocked by, be offended by, be scandalized by, find unacceptable, be against, frown on
    disapprove of, take a dim view of, look askance at, take exception to, detest, despise, execrate
    condemn, denounce, decry, deprecate, censure, damn
    regret, express regret about, lament, mourn, rue, bemoan, bewail, complain about, grieve over, express sorrow about, sorrow over, sigh over, cry over, weep over, shed tears over, beat one's breast about, wring one's hands over
    archaic plain over

Derivatives

  • deploringly

  • adverbdɪˈplɔːrɪŋlidəˈplɔrɪŋli
    • Colleen groaned and rolled onto her side, looking deploringly at her mother.
      James looked at me deploringly and not in the least guilty looking at all.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'weep for, regret deeply'): from French déplorer or Italian deplorare, from Latin deplorare, from de- 'away, thoroughly' + plorare 'bewail'.

  • To deplore something was originally to weep over it, then regret deeply. The sense weakened over time until in the mid 19th century it was merely to disapprove strongly. The word comes from Latin deplorare, from de- ‘away, thoroughly’ and plorare ‘bewail’.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of deplore in US English:

deplore

verbdəˈplɔrdəˈplôr
[with object]
  • Feel or express strong disapproval of (something)

    强烈反对;谴责

    we deplore this act of violence

    我们谴责一切暴力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My husband deplores those court trials that weight the sorrow of the survivors in sentencing the convicted.
    • In deploring pronunciation, Mr Johnstone is right in saying there is no lexicographical or etymological reason for the change of consular to ‘conshular’, but he forgets what sounds are involved.
    • This dialogue grows out of an article in the April 6 issue of The New Yorker deploring the state of movies today.
    • He acknowledges a common humanity, denouncing modern race slavery in the strongest terms and deploring the disappearance of Indian civilizations into a historical void in which their cultural meanings would be forever lost.
    • They will utter platitudes deploring the brutal murder of a pensioner; but what gets their adrenalin pumping is knee-jerk, liberal indignation at any proposals to make life hard for criminals.
    • It was at this point that the performance of the Ministry of Culture came under attack, with Hegazi, for one board member, deploring the deterioration of the film industry since the 1960s.
    • The article neither endorsed nor deplored the idea, but simply noticed the plain strength of feeling displayed by those who wrote to him on the subject.
    • As she put it, ‘instead of deploring our lack of homogeneity, we should glory in it.’
    • The statement that they had not left the meeting but left to attend to other business was deplored as a perversion of the facts.
    • Khomeini, deploring the moral degradation he saw around him and the people's lack of will and moral fibre to combat it, pledged his opposition ‘as long as there is blood in my veins.’
    • ‘Fifty percent of college students couldn't tell you what decade the Civil War was in,’ he announced at one point, deploring the state of contemporary education.
    • If viewers deplore dearth of quality films, some producers bemoan lack of quality film viewers.
    • While the old man wandered around the castle at Dux, deploring the impertinence of the servants (they laughed at his old-fashioned cloth-of-gold coat and elaborate bow), he was composing a work of huge historical interest.
    • Henry's own, lofty response, more in sorrow than in anger, was to deplore the muckraking of his opponents.
    • Jay does not flinch from deploring two of the biggest consequences of the penetration of market forces to almost every part of the globe; the threat to the environment and the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor.
    • He said: " The council deplores all acts of violence ".
    • I can almost hear the harrumphing complaints that politicians have always spent as much time deploring the wickedness of opponents as praising the virtues of their policies - and so they have.
    • It therefore deplores any material which indicates violence against women and children could ever be acceptable.
    • The official condemnations of the bombing, therefore, focus not on deploring the act but on lamenting the consequences.
    • Its main purpose is to deplore the use of violence in this dispute.
    Synonyms
    abhor, be shocked by, be offended by, be scandalized by, find unacceptable, be against, frown on
    regret, express regret about, lament, mourn, rue, bemoan, bewail, complain about, grieve over, express sorrow about, sorrow over, sigh over, cry over, weep over, shed tears over, beat one's breast about, wring one's hands over

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘weep for, regret deeply’): from French déplorer or Italian deplorare, from Latin deplorare, from de- ‘away, thoroughly’ + plorare ‘bewail’.

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