lugubriates

Verb

lugubriate (third-person singular simple present lugubriates, present participle lugubriating, simple past and past participle lugubriated)

1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To render, become, or be lugubrious.
2. (intransitive, rare) To be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.
   • Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.2011, John Mauldin, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (unpaginated)