sorrow
/ˈsɑɹoʊ/ verb C2- To feel or express grief.
- To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
He/she/it sorrows · Past sorrowed · Past participle sorrowed · -ing form sorrowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sorrow
- He/she/it
- sorrows
- Past
- sorrowed
- Past participle
- sorrowed
- -ing form
- sorrowing
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Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.
Baloo did not wish to bring Mowgli into any more trouble, but he could not tamper with the Law, so he mumbled: “Sorrow never stays punishment.
It will be my lifelong sorrow.
I read of a girl once in a novel who had a lifelong sorrow but it wasn’t red hair.
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