rue

Any of various aromatic woody herbs or shrubs of the genus Ruta of the Mediterranean region and western Asia, especially the ornamental R. graveolens, having bipinnately compound leaves that yield an acrid volatile oil formerly used in medicine.

Any of various other plants having similar foliage, such as meadow rue.

To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for.

To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow.

Sorrow; regret.

Sorrow; repentance.

. To cause to grieve; make repentant, compassionate, or sorrowful; afflict: often used impersonally with a personal pronoun.

To repent of; feel remorse for; regret; hence, to suffer in expiation of: as, to rue one’s folly or mistakes.

To feel sorrow or suffering on account of; suffer from or by; experience loss or injury from.

To have or take pity on; feel sorry for; compassionate.