WORD: REGRET
MEANING:
v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets
v.tr.
1. To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about: I regret not speaking to her before she left.
2. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn: "He almost regretted the penury which he had suffered during the last two years since the desperate struggle merely to keep body and soul together had deadened the pain of living" (W. Somerset Maugham).
3. guilt, remorse
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. My only regret is that I have to leave the post.
2. I sent her my regrets about leaving.
PRONOUNCE:
re·gret - रग्रेट / रिग्रेट / रिग्रेट
LINK: REGRET
MEANING:
v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets
v.tr.
1. To feel sorry, disappointed, distressed, or remorseful about: I regret not speaking to her before she left.
2. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn: "He almost regretted the penury which he had suffered during the last two years since the desperate struggle merely to keep body and soul together had deadened the pain of living" (W. Somerset Maugham).
3. guilt, remorse
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. My only regret is that I have to leave the post.
2. I sent her my regrets about leaving.
PRONOUNCE:
re·gret - रग्रेट / रिग्रेट / रिग्रेट
LINK: REGRET
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