Re‐gret″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Regretted (–tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n.Regretting.] [F. regretter, OF. regreter; L. pref. re- re- + a word of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. grētan to weep, Icel. grāta. See Greet to lament.] To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
Calmly he looked on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. Pope.
In a few hours they began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader. Macaulay.
Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken. Macaulay.