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mourn
[ mawrn, mohrn ]
verb (used without object)
- to feel or express sorrow or grief.
- to grieve or lament for the dead.
- to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.
verb (used with object)
- to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
- to grieve or lament over (the dead).
- to utter in a sorrowful manner.
mourn
/ mɔːn /
verb
- to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something)
- intr to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black
- tr to grieve over (loss or misfortune)
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Other Words From
- over·mourn verb
- un·mourned adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mourn1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mourn1
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Example Sentences
Followers had traveled many miles to mourn the loss, and aid in the ritual washing, dressing, and honoring of the body.
So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.
In Ferguson, Missouri, the bullet-ridden body of Michael Brown lies on a slab somewhere, and his parents await justice, and mourn.
Mourn so enthusiastically that you end up neglecting your own family.
But, much as we might mourn the losses, why should the United States be in the business of trying to hold it all together now?
"Dad and Hans Rutter, as you know, weren't the sort of men to sit around and mourn over anything like that," she laughed.
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes.
How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled.
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