mourn
/mɔɹn/ verb B1- To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). · For two months, she mourned her father's passing.· She mourned the loss of her independence.
- To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially. · In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- To wear mourning.
He/she/it mourns · Past mourned · Past participle mourned · -ing form mourning
Verb forms
- Base form
- mourn
- He/she/it
- mourns
- Past
- mourned
- Past participle
- mourned
- -ing form
- mourning
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As for me, I must look after the anchoring, and dress the ship in mourning.”
Holmes had the impersonal joy of the true artist in his better work, even as he mourned darkly when it fell below the high level to which he aspired.
“Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to mourn for the man who gave me my lovely heart.
“My greatest wish now,” she added, “is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it.”
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