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Regret

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Noun

1. regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow

sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

Example Sentences:
'he drank to drown his sorrows'
'he wrote a note expressing his regret'
'to his rue, the error cost him the game'

Verb

2. regret, repent, rue

feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

3. regret

feel sad about the loss or absence of

4. regret

decline formally or politely

Example Sentences:
'I regret I can't come to the party'

5. regret

express with regret

Example Sentences:
'I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Regret

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verb -grets, -gretting or -gretted (transitive)
1. (may take a clause as object or an infinitive)
to feel sorry, repentant, or upset about
2. 
to bemoan or grieve the death or loss of
noun
3. 
a sense of repentance, guilt, or sorrow, as over some wrong done or an unfulfilled ambition
4. 
a sense of loss or grief
5. (plural)
a polite expression of sadness, esp in a formal refusal of an invitation

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Regret

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verb transitiveWord forms: reˈgretted or reˈgretting
1. 
to feel sorry about or mourn for (a person or thing gone, lost, etc.)
2. 
to feel troubled or remorseful over (something that has happened, one's own acts, etc.)
noun
3. 
a troubled feeling or remorse over something that has happened, esp. over something that one has done or left undone
4. 
sorrow over a person or thing gone, lost, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Regret

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v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets
v.tr.
1. To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about: I regret not speaking to her before she left.
2. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn: "He almost regretted the penury which he had suffered during the last two years since the desperate struggle merely to keep body and soul together had deadened the pain of living" (W. Somerset Maugham).
v.intr.
To feel regret.
n.
1. A feeling of sorrow, disappointment, distress, or remorse about something that one wishes could be different.
2. A sense of loss and longing for someone or something gone or passed out of existence: "We have both had flashes of regret for those vanished, golden people" (Anne Rivers Siddons).
3. regrets A courteous expression of regret, especially at having to decline an invitation.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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