to mourn
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3.0
- verb
- /mɔrn/
:
lamentar
- We gather here today to mourn our loss yet celebrate his deliverance into the loving and eternal care of god almighty.
- mourn the loss
- mourn the death
- mourn the dead
And you cry, you mourn and you just move on.
- And you cry, you mourn and you just move on.
- And all we wanted to do was mourn those people, mourn our friend.
- As a society, we were never given the opportunity to mourn the loss.
- And and I really then mourned my daughter even further.
- We're able to mourn, move past it, and get going again.
- He's not mourning, he's not despairing.
- After the Battle of Kermohen, the defenders licked their wounds and mourned their losses.
- After he died, people laid flowers at a retail store to mourn the loss.
Examples
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People from across Uvalde and beyond gathered to mourn the lives lost.
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Throughout my childhood, my father never adequately mourned or expressed much grief for this most important loss.
Academic text (1995) -
When there are so many to mourn, of whom shall we speak?
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But most of us mourn and come out the other end.
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As a society, we were never given the opportunity to mourn the loss.
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And all we wanted to do was mourn those people, mourn our friend.
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We all mourned when we heard the news.
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And as we mourn the loss of this beloved wife, mother and friend, it only makes her choice that much more unfathomable.
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At one side of the pool, Rachel sits, lost in thought, mourning her sister.
Fiction book (1992) -
We all mourned when we heard the news of her passing.
Synonyms
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1.1
To cry and let tears fall because you feel sad or have strong feelings
139
3.8
To feel very sad because of a loss
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5.0
To show or say that you feel sad about something
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7.1
To say you are sad about something and complain about it
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5.2
To feel deep sadness after a loss
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9.7
To make a loud, sad cry for someone who has died
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9.6
To show deep sadness and regret about something
Antonyms
How Sad
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3.8
191
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mourn comes from an old English verb murnian, which meant 'to remember with sadness' or 'to be sorry'. So to mourn today is to feel or show deep sadness, often after someone has died.