bemoan

To bemoan is to complain or express grief about something.

(verb)

If you believe that everything is too highly priced and out of your budget, this is an example of when you might bemoan your lack of money.

See bemoan in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to moan about or deplore (a loss, grief, etc.); lament: to bemoan one's fate

Origin: ME bimaenen < OE bemaenan: see be- & moan

See bemoan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb be·moaned, be·moan·ing, be·moans

To express grief over; lament.
To express disapproval of or regret for; deplore: “Tom Brokaw of NBC News recently bemoaned ‘the cancer of the sound bite’ afflicting Presidential campaigning” (John Tierney).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English bimonen

Origin: , alteration (influenced by mone, moan)

Origin: of bimenen

Origin: , from Old English bemǣnan

Origin: : be-, be-

Origin: + mǣnan, to complain of; see mei-no- in Indo-European roots

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