The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REPENT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REPENT
- Feel remorse, being shut up again?
- Feel genuinely sorry about gym’s charge
- Be sorry about gym’s charge
- Regret being incarcerated again
- Soldiers imprisoned feel remorse
- Regret sports lesson, having torn around
- Regret past evil or heartless present, perhaps
- Express contrition but imprisoned again
- Regret past evil or heartless present, perhaps?
- Regret about writer, bankrupt, ultimately
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What does REPENT mean?
REPENT verb- To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
- To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- To be sorry for, to regret.
- To cause to have sorrow or regret.
- To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
- Creeping along the ground.