deploring

Verb

deplore (third-person singular simple present deplores, present participle deploring, simple past and past participle deplored)

1. (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
   • I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.

   Synonyms:

   bewail, lament, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, beweep, condole, elegize

2. (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
   • I deplore how you treated him at the party.

   Synonyms:

   censure, condemn, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, cannonade, slash, lash

3. (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
   • The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored; whereas, in my judgement, they ought both to inquire the skill, and to give the attendances, for the facilitating and assuaging of the pains and agonies of death.1605, Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning

   Synonyms:

   cede, yield, abandon, bend, capitulate, cave in, fall in line, give over, give in, give up