Regret /(r?*gr?t")/

1. Pain of mind 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; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.

   What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?

   Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

   From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

2. Dislike; aversion. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Regretted; p. pr. & vb. n. Regretting

1. 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.

   In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader.

   Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken.