Definitions for mourn

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mourn mourn

Spelling: [mawrn, mohrn]

IPA: /mɔrn, moʊrn/

Mourn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in mourn (mnoru).

Definitions for mourn

verb (used with object)

1. to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
2. to grieve or lament over (the dead).
3. to utter in a sorrowful manner.

verb (used without object)

1. to feel or express sorrow or grief.
2. to grieve or lament for the dead.
3. to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.

Origin of mourn

before 900; Middle English mo(u)rnen, Old English murnan; cognate with Old High German mornēn, Old Norse morna, Gothic maurnan

Examples for mourn

Then the other birds of the greenwood came to mourn over their dead friend.

In Ferguson, Missouri, the bullet-ridden body of Michael Brown lies on a slab somewhere, and his parents await justice, and mourn.

Even to this day they mourn for him and tremble at the least breeze from heaven.

More than once the Iraqis we worked with postponed our engagements so they could mourn slain colleagues.

She had left behind her something which was very fine and beautiful; but she could not mourn.

mourn so enthusiastically that you end up neglecting your own family.

You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.

The Sermon on the Mount promises the kingdom to the poor and them that mourn.

But, much as we might mourn the losses, why should the United States be in the business of trying to hold it all together now?

Followers had traveled many miles to mourn the loss, and aid in the ritual washing, dressing, and honoring of the body.