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1. 对…感到后悔;懊悔
If you rue something that you have done, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.

2. 后悔;遗憾;懊悔
If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.

1. (French) a street or road in France

2. sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

e.g. he drank to drown his sorrows
he wrote a note expressing his regret
to his rue, the error cost him the game

Synonym: sorrowregretruefulness

3. leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy

4. European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves
an irritant similar to poison ivy

Synonym: herb of graceRuta graveolens