regret

  1. Verb.  To feel sorry about (a thing that has happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  2. Verb.  (context, more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
  3. Noun.  The instance of such an emotion.

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