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mourn definition

mourn (môrn)

intransitive verb

  1. to feel or express sorrow; lament; grieve
  2. to grieve for someone who has died; specif., to manifest the conventional signs of such grief, as by wearing black clothes
  3. to make the low, continuous sound of a dove

Etymology: ME mournen < OE murnan; akin to Goth *maúrnan, to be anxious < IE base *(s)mer-, to remember: see merit

transitive verb

  1. to feel or express sorrow for (something regrettable)
  2. to grieve for (someone who has died)
  3. to utter in a manner expressing sorrow

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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