0 past simple and past participle of bemoan --
1 to complain or express sadness about something: --
Researchers at universities are always bemoaning their lack of funds.
Others, of course, sat down and bemoaned their lot, but we cannot help it.
They bemoaned the fact that it was almost impossible for them to go out together and choose something for their future home.
He almost bemoaned the passing of the self-employed business man and put it down to the arrival of the multi-national company.
Whilst most discussions bemoaned the dwindling powers and resources available to local government, some liberating implications were apparent.
The authors challenge earlier narratives that saw the break between sociology and social reform as essential for sociology to achieve scientific status, whether such narratives celebrated or bemoaned this development.
While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
They found that wives bemoaned a decrease in personal freedom and an increase in togetherness.
He bemoaned their rejection of cheap but nutritious northern dishes such as ' hasty pudding ' (milk porridge).
