Verb

(grumbl)

To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

The distant thunder grumbles .

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Terry C. Johnston , title=Dance on the Wind , page=15 , passage=It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own.}}

To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

He grumbles about the food constantly, but has yet to learn to cook.

To utter in a grumbling fashion.

* 2001 , Harry Willcox Pfanz, Gettysburg — the first day?

He grumbled that there was no grain "in the country" and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.

Verb

(deplor)

To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.

The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.

I deplore not having listened to your advice.

To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.

I deplore how you treated him at the party.

Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.

(obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

(Francis Bacon)