lugubriate

present singular third person lugubriates · participle present lugubriating · participle past lugubriated · past lugubriated

1. intransitiveraretransitiveTo render, become, or be lugubrious.
2. intransitiverareTo be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.

   He who culminates his nature's wealth will ne'er lugubriate by stealth.

   1882, Grip Print. & Publishing Company - Canada, Grip - Volume 18, A Political Novel of the Nineteenth Century - Pages 1-3

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   Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.

   2011, John Mauldin, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (unpaginated)

   I've listened to Leonard Cohen lugubriate his erotic evasions, and to Van the Man rave on about the blues and Debussy, to Doc Cook, the Good Father of my college days, rhapsodize about Emerson's bare puddle vastations.

   1999, Geraldine and Elizabeth Poline, Poet Lore - Volume 94, Poet-lore Company, page 43