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Meaning of lugubriate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To render, become, or be lugubrious.
    intransitive, rare, transitive
  2. To be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.
    intransitive, rare

Examples

“Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.”
“He who culminates his nature's wealth will ne'er lugubriate by stealth.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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