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bewail

verb
/bɪˈweɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English bewailen, equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + wail.

  1. inherited from bewailen

Definitions

  1. To wail over

    To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.

    • […] Though in this city he Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory.
    • And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bewail. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bewail. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at bewail

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA