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Present participle for to express discontent

Present participle for to feel discontent or unhappiness

Present participle for to mourn or feel regret

Present participle for to desire or pine for someone or something

Present participle for to feel repentant over

Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death

Suggestive or expressive of sorrow, distress or regret

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Verb

Present participle for to express discontent

kicking up a fuss

kicking up a stink

finding fault with

taking exception

speaking out against

raising a ruckus

crying the blues

kicking up a storm

raising objections

expressing disapproval

putting the boot in

picking holes in

putting up a fight

lodging a complaint

making a complaint

blowing off steam

talking under your breath

making a big thing out of

making a mountain out of a molehill

making a big thing of

making a meal of

making a thing of

screaming bloody murder

making a song and dance

sorrowing about

grouching about

sounding off about

kicking up a fuss about

kicking up a stink about

bellyaching about

complaining vehemently about

taking exception to

expressing concern

showing concern

looking askance

inveighing against

hypercriticizing

moaning and groaning

casting aspersions on

doing a hatchet job on

pulling to pieces

speaking ill of

splitting hairs

shedding tears over

complaining about

shedding tears for

quibbling about

expressing disagreement

kvetching about

expressing regret about

expressing opposition

rocking the boat

singing the blues

making an objection

eating your heart out

kicking up a rumpus

crying over spilt milk

crying over spilled milk

beating one's breast

making a protest

voicing disapproval

kicking against

taking up the cudgels

expressing objections

protesting against

expressing objections to

lodging a protest

arguing against

expressing disagreement with

lodging a protest against

expressing disapproval of

raising objections to

remonstrating against

taking issue with

having a problem

quarreling with

disapproving of

grumbling about

drawing the line

taking a stand against

having a problem with

discountenancing

drawing the line at

making a fuss about

begging to differ

raising objection

railing against

mixing it up with

going-one-on-one

expressing sorrow about

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“But when we complain, repine, and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.”

Verb

Present participle for to feel discontent or unhappiness

feeling unhappy

feeling despondent

feeling miserable

eating your heart out

languishing over

feeling despondent about

chafing inwardly

having a long face

wearing a long face

going about like a half-shut knife

feeling sorry for yourself

mopping and mow

having the hump

shedding tears for

languishing for

regretting the loss of

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“Shall we repine at leaving the beauties of earth, when the Pearly Gates of Paradise are opening before our very eyes?”

Verb

Present participle for to mourn or feel regret

eating your heart out

shedding tears for

beating one's breast

complaining about

singing the blues

expressing sorrow

expressing sorrow about

expressing sorrow for

wearing black for

feeling wretched

expressing woe for

shedding tears over

feeling grief at

feeling sorrow at

feeling sad about

expressing grief

anguishing over

expressing regret about

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“And so I ceased to repine for the wound I had made in the heart of Semiramis Wilcox.”

Verb

Present participle for to desire or pine for someone or something

hankering after

carrying a torch for

Verb

Present participle for to feel repentant over

Noun

Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death

broken-heartedness

heaviness of heart

mental suffering

disconsolateness

downheartedness

heavy-heartedness

dissatisfaction

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

emotional suffering

apprehensiveness

dark night of the soul

unconsolability

heavyheartedness

disillusionment

harsh conditions

low-spiritedness

discontentedness

heartbrokenness

Sturm und Drang

nervous tension

stroke of bad luck

slough of despond

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Adjective

Suggestive or expressive of sorrow, distress or regret

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

deeply regretful

deeply saddened

extremely saddened

racked with pain

racked with suffering

heavy with grief

having blue devils

singing the blues

having the blahs

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

with a long face

down-in-the-mouth

sorry for yourself

at the end of your tether

discombobulated

prostrate with grief

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

conscience-stricken

at end of one's rope

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

poverty-stricken

behind the eightball

on the verge of tears

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

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