Mourn

[mɔːn] or [mɔrn]

Definition

(verb.) feel sadness; 'She is mourning her dead child'.

(verb.) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one.

Typist: Rowland--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.

(v. i.) To wear the customary garb of a mourner.

(v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

(v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

Typist: Morton

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Grieve, lament, be sorrowful.

v. a. Deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over.

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Definition

v.i. to grieve: to be sorrowful: to wear mourning.—v.t. to grieve for: to utter in a sorrowful manner.—n. Mourn′er one who mourns one who attends a funeral in mourning-dress esp. one of those related to the deceased.—adj. Mourn′ful mourning: causing or expressing sorrow: feeling grief.—adv. Mourn′fully.—n. Mourn′fulness.—adj. Mourn′ing grieving: lamenting.—n. the act of expressing grief: the dress of mourners or other tokens of mourning.—ns. Mourn′ing-bride the sweet scabious; Mourn′ing-cloak an undertaker's cloak formerly worn at a funeral; Mourn′ing-coach a closed carriage for carrying mourners to a funeral; Mourn′ing-dove the common American turtle-dove.—adv. Mourn′ingly.—ns. Mourn′ing-piece a picture intended to be a memorial of the dead; Mourn′ing-ring a ring worn in memorial of a dead person; Mourn′ing-stuff a lustreless black dress fabric as crape cashmere &c. for making mourning clothes.

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