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gut | regret |

As an initialism gut

is grand unification theory.

As a verb regret is

to feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

As a noun regret is

emotional pain 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.

gut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  • (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
    • beer gut
  • (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  • A person's emotional, visceral self.
    • I have a funny feeling in my gut .
  • (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
    • He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
  • (in the plural) Ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.
    • It took a lot of guts to admit to using banned substances on television.
  • (informal) A gut course
    • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut .
  • A narrow passage of water.
    • the Gut of Canso
  • The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

    • Synonyms

    * alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards * , belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy * (intestines of an animal used to make strings) catgut

    Derived terms

    * catgut * gut barging * gut feeling * hate someone's guts * gutless * gutsy * tailgut

    Verb

    (gutt)
  • To eviscerate.
  • To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
  • :* fire gutted the building
  • :* Congress gutted the welfare bill.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
  • Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction

    • Related terms

    * blood-and-guts

    Anagrams

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    regret

    English

    (wikipedia regret)

    Verb

    (regrett)
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

    • Usage notes

    This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. See

    Derived terms

    * regretter

    Noun

  • Emotional pain 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.
  • * Macaulay
    • What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
  • * Clarendon
    • Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
  • * Washington Irving
    • From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
  • (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

    • See also

    * remorse * repentance

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