mourn
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.
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.
Origin of mourn
1synonym study For mourn
Other words for mourn
Opposites for mourn
Other words from mourn
- o·ver·mourn, verb
- un·mourned, adjective
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How to use mourn in a sentence
The other longtime characters don’t even get to bid Dean goodbye — Sam builds a private funeral pyre for his brother, and mourns alone.
Supernatural’s bonkers series finale marked the end of an era of fandom | Aja Romano | November 20, 2020 | VoxGrieving someone who you may have never met isn’t going to be the same thing as mourning a loved one.
Greene shares what started as his diary entries, his way of coping through the tragedy, and writes about how he mourned with his wife and slowly moved on.
After losing two loved ones to covid-19, I turned to books. Here are 15 titles that helped me cope. | Zibby Owens | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostIn Fulton County, the elections staff had already mourned the death of Beverly Walker, 62, a grandmother and veteran registration officer who died in April of complications from the coronavirus.
‘We will not allow anyone to stop us’: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation’s vote counters carried on | Amy Gardner, Reis Thebault, Hannah Knowles, Michelle Lee | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostHowever, we shouldn’t mourn the passing of a version of America’s cultural heritage that has always been based on rather bad history.
Noble virtues, bad history: How Greece and Rome influenced America’s founders | Charles King | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post
In it he arrives at (as well as departs from; neat feat) the startling notion of the Great War as one that was pre-mourned.
Geoff Dyer at Sea: Unmoored but on Target | Melissa Holbrook Pierson | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat is being celebrated and rewarded by the Kremlin are events that the international community has mourned.
Putin’s Crimean Medal of Honor, Forged Before the War Even Began | Will Cathcart | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe watched her float about, a meandering frown, for two whole hours in the season premiere as she mourned the death of Matthew.
‘Downton Abbey’ Finale Review: The Depressing Demise of a Once-Great Show | Kevin Fallon | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUkraine mourned grave news coming from the burning, revolutionary streets of Kiev this week.
The two men that were killed are still deeply mourned in the community.
Six Key Parts of a New Report That May Change Your View on Drones | Abby Haglage | October 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThe vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousHonorine de Bauvan lost her child born out of wedlock, and she always mourned it.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThe country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousAnd all the people of Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and they mourned for him many days.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for mourn
/ (mɔːn) /
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)
Origin of mourn
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