Definitions for rues

rues rue

Spelling: [roo]
IPA: /ru/

Rues is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in rues (ersu).

Definitions for rues

noun

  1. sorrow; repentance; regret.
  2. pity or compassion.
  3. any strongly scented plant of the genus Ruta, especially R. graveolens, having yellow flowers and leaves formerly used in medicine.

verb (used with object)

  1. to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly:
  2. to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, etc.:

verb (used without object)

  1. to feel sorrow, repentance, or regret.

Origin of rues

before 900; (v.) Middle English ruen, rewen, Old English hrēowan; cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen; (noun) Middle English rewe, reowe, Old English hrēow; cognate with Dutch rouw, Germa

Examples for rues

A vast and enthusiastic audience thronged, with joyous clatter, through narrow rues Mazarine and Dauphine, coming from the river.

As you wander along its rues and ways you feel that, somehow or other, the days of its importance and its power are forever gone.

The above Goat's-rues are of the simplest culture; they will do in any soil, but if they are liberally treated they will repay it.

What the eye views not, the heart craves not, as well as rues not.

This conflagration forced us to leave the barricades of the rues de Flandre and Riquet.

The scene took place in front of a house which was being pulled down at the corner of the rues Duphot and Saint-Honore.

Along one narrow rue—all streets are rues and all rues are narrow here—were many brilliant lights.

The enemy advance had continued with remarkable rapidity towards rues Vertes and Marcoing.

Flusht at the sight the pirates seize the spoil, And ravaged Colchis rues the insidious toil.

Word Value for rues
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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