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mourn

[mawrn, mohrn]

verb (used without object)

  1. to feel or express sorrow or grief.

    Synonyms: ,
    Antonyms: ,
  2. to grieve or lament for the dead.

  3. to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.



verb (used with object)

  1. to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.

  2. to grieve or lament over (the dead).

  3. to utter in a sorrowful manner.

mourn

/ ɔː /

verb

  1. to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something)

  2. (intr) to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black

  3. (tr) to grieve over (loss or misfortune)

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Other Word Forms

  • overmourn verb
  • unmourned adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mourn1

First recorded before 900; Middle English mo(u)rnen, Old English murnan; cognate with Old High German ǰŧ, Old Norse morna, Gothic maurnan
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mourn1

Old English murnan; compare Old High German ǰŧ to be troubled, Gothic maurnan to grieve, Greek mermeros worried
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Synonym Study

See grieve.
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Example Sentences

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The world is mourning the loss of music icon Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82.

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The incident was the deadliest mass shooting in Austria's recent history and the country has declared three days of mourning.

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Three days of mourning have been declared in Austria.

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French President Emmanuel Macron said the teaching assistant was a "victim of a senseless wave of violence" and declared that "the nation is in mourning".

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It’s not hard to imagine this being fueled by viral videos of chatbots expressing sadness, robots mourning their shutdowns, or virtual companions pleading for continued existence.

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