Usually means: Regret or lament something bitterly.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word rue:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. rue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rue, rue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rue, rue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rue, rue: Wordnik
  7. rue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rue, rue: Wiktionary
  9. rue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. RUE: Dictionary.com
  13. rue (n.), rue (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rue (The Hunger Games), Rue (disambiguation), Rue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rue: Rhymezone
  19. rue, rue (f), rue (f) (avec des maisons disposes en arc de cercle): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rue: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rue: Free Dictionary
  23. rue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Rue, rue: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Rue: The Word Detective
  26. rue: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rue: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rue: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUE: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RUE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUE: Acronym Finder
  2. RUE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rue: Easton Bible
  2. Rue: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rue: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rue: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
noun:  (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
verb:  (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
noun:  Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
noun:  A surname.

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