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regrets

noun

Meaning

  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. Dislike; aversion.
  3. 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.
  4. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
  5. To miss; to feel the loss or absence of.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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