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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • v·dzܰ verb
  • ܲ·dzܰԱ 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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Commercialized saint-making is dehumanizing, and bypasses genuine mourning by reducing people to idols.

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And then, flash forward 30 or so years later, I’m like, “Oh wow, listen to those mourning doves!”

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Exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed, “The Lilac People” exhumes a buried history that could leave us mourning our lost democracy if we don’t learn from, and act on, its tragic lessons.

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The death of Sade’s mother, the twin of Mina’s father, is an occasion for a double mourning.

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Vancouver's Filipino community has been left in shock and mourning after a car ramming attack left 11 people dead on Saturday.

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