bemoan

verb

1. (transitive)To moan or complain about (something).

   “He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.”

   “The losse of this erle was greatly bemoned by men of al degrees, for he was liberal, gentle, humble, and curteous to eche one […]”

   “[…] after deliberately marrying General Shaw with no warmer feeling than respect for his character and establishment, [she] was constantly, though quietly, bemoaning her hard lot in being united to one whom she could not love.”

   ““I am sure you are better off without Mr. Hogg,” Helena would say often when Georgina bemoaned her husband’s desertion.”

   “"Directoritis strikes again!" bemoans Dan Sullivan, who believes that the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]”

2. (reflexive, transitive)To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.

   “Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death? Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son?”

   “Sure you take mee not to be made of flesh, or if so, yet not to be sensible that thinke me able to beare these burthens without bemoning my selfe.”

   “My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. […] It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom: it bemoaned him with bitter pity […]”

   “[…]So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?"; and he replied saying, "Seek ye deliverance of the Most High from the strait into which we have fallen and bemoan yourselves and take leave of one another; for know that the wind hath gotten the mastery of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world."”

   ““He is come to the town in order to marry a hapless maiden. The lady must be bemoaned.””