rue

noun · verbA1

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noun
Plural noun:
rewerues
  1. 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. 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. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.

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verb
V_es/s
rues
V_ing/Gerund
ruing
V_ed/pp
rueingrued
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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

  5. 5.

    (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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Đồng nghĩa

contritionmiseryunhappinessbluenesstristessemirthlessbluescrestfallennessdejectiondepressiondespondencydistressdolefulnessdownheartednessdreariheadforlornnessgriefheartsoreill-beinginfelicity

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.

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