Definitions for bemoan

bemoan be·moan

Spelling: [bih-mohn]
IPA: /bɪˈmoʊn/

Bemoan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in bemoan (abemno).

Definitions for bemoan

verb (used with object)

  1. to express distress or grief over; lament:
  2. to regard with regret or disapproval.

Origin of bemoan

before 1000; be- + moan; replacing bemene, Middle English bimenen, Old English bimǣnan (bi- be- + mǣnan to moan)

Examples for bemoan

They bemoan the fact that poker games are too often delayed because people get up to take smoke breaks.

After such a fight, are you fool enough to bemoan a victory?

I just heard Anderson Cooper bemoan the fact that he had seen no heavy earth moving equipment on the scene.

I hold it folly in him who must die that he should bemoan himself.

Boys, we must not bemoan our loss in the face of such a catastrophe as this.

People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.

Not to mention the fragrant Ms. Hasselbeck bemoan the fact that we now live in the "divided states of America."

But some bemoan the way the kids have transformed their city, and nowhere is that change more visible than The Bywater.

Opening out her bundle of dried meat, she began to eat and bemoan her fate.

He will then bemoan a vague “lack of political will” or “absence of leadership” as the reason for the inertia.

Word Value for bemoan
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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