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Definition regret

Etymology

From Middle English regretten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Old Frankish *gr?tan (“to weep, mourn, lament”); from Proto-Germanic *gr?tan? (“to weep”), and Old Frankish *gr?otan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutan? (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrew- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- +‎ greet. Cognate with Middle High German gr?zan (“to cry”), Old English gr?tan (“to weep, greet”), Old English gr?otan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic ?????? (gr?tan, “to weep”). More at greet.

Verb

regret (third-person singular simple present regrets, present participle regretting, simple past and past participle regretted)

1. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
2. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

Noun

regret (countable and uncountable, plural regrets)

1. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
2. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

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