rue
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic, dialectal, uncountable)(archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
Đồng nghĩa: contrition, misery, unhappiness, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness, agenbite, remorse, rue, ruth, compunction, contrition, guilt, penitence, repentance, self-reproach, sorriness
- 2.
(archaic, dialectal, uncountable)(archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
Đồng nghĩa: ruth, sympathy, bowels, commiseration, compassion, empathy, fellow feeling, mercy, pity, remorse, rue, ruth, sympathy, tenderheartedness, loving-kindness
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
to rue the day
I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
Đồng nghĩa: afterthink, deprecate, regret, repent
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
Đồng nghĩa: forthink, put the fear of God into, think over
- 3.
(obsolete, transitive)To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
Đồng nghĩa: deject, depress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset
- 4.
(archaic, intransitive, obsolete)(archaic or obsolete, intransitive, often with on or upon) To feel compassion or pity; to take pity (on), to have compassion (on).
1842, Nicholas Ridley, The Life of Nicholas Ridley which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
Đồng nghĩa: commiserate, compassionate, feel sorry for, mercify, commiserate, compassion, compassionate, condole, feel someone's pain, feel sorry for, mercify, pity, rue, take pity
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(archaic, intransitive)To feel sorrow or regret.
Đồng nghĩa: grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, bleed, lament, moan, mourn, remorse, repent, regret, rue, sigh, sorrow, wayment, yearn
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From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance), from *hreuwu (pain, sadness, regret, repentance). Cognates include reuen and rouwen.