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- Dictionarymourn/mɔːn/
verb
- 1. feel or show sorrow for the death of (someone), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes: "Isobel mourned her husband" Similar
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The meaning of MOURN is to feel or express grief or sorrow. How to use mourn in a sentence.
MOURN definition: 1. to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death: 2. to feel or express…. Learn more.
MOURN meaning: 1. to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death: 2. to feel or express…. Learn more.
to feel or express sorrow or grief. Synonyms: bemoan, bewail. Antonyms: rejoice, laugh. 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).
1. to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something) 2. (Anthropology & Ethnology) ( intr) to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black. 3. ( tr) to grieve over (loss or misfortune) [Old English murnan; compare Old High German mornēn to be troubled, Gothic maurnan to grieve, Greek mermeros worried]
to feel and show that you are sad because somebody has died; to feel sad because something no longer exists or is no longer the same synonym grieve. Please, leave us to mourn in peace. mourn something He was still mourning his brother's death. They mourn the passing of a simpler way of life.
To mourn is to grieve for someone who has died, especially a loved one. One of the hardest experiences of childhood is when you mourn the loss of a beloved pet. You can also mourn for things that you've lost, not only pets and people who have died.
mourn. verb. /mɔrn/ [transitive, intransitive] Verb Forms. to feel and show sadness because someone has died; to feel sad because something no longer exists or is no longer the same synonym grieve mourn something He was still mourning his brother's death.
How to use . mourn in a sentenceFollowers had traveled many miles to mourn the loss, and aid in the ritual washing, dressing, and honoring of the body.
Definitions of 'mourn' 1. If you mourn someone who has died or mourn for them, you are very sad that they have died and show your sorrow in the way that you behave. [...] 2. If you mourn something or mourn for it, you regret that you no longer have it and show your regret in the way that you behave. [...] More. Conjugations of 'mourn'
