mourn

[US]/mɔːn/
[UK]/mɔːrn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. grieve; be in mourning; be sorrowful
n. mourning; lamentation

Phrases & Collocations

mourn for

mourn over

Example Sentences

mourning the death of their daughter

mourning regalia became her.

mourning and depression are not the same thing.

mourn over sb.'s death

The court will go into mourning for the late king.

She was in mourning for her mother.

The couple mourned for their dead child.

evidence of grief on a mourner's face.

a day of mourning for the victims of the tragedy

He was in deep mourning for his dead wife.

mourning for lost hopes;

Isobel mourned her husband.

mourned the wasted years.

type genus of the Nymphalidae: mourning cloak butterflies.

She mourned for her dead child.

She mourned the loss of her brother.

publishers mourned declining sales of hardback fiction.

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