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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, intransitive, rare) To render, become, or be lugubrious..
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.
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Lugubriate means (transitive, intransitive, rare) To render, become, or be lugubrious..
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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.
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