mourn+for

  • 11mourn|ing — «MR nihng, MOHR », noun, adjective. –n. 1. the wearing of black or some other color (white in the Orient) to show sorrow for a person s death. 2. the action of draping buildings or flying flags at half mast as an outward sign of sorrow for death …

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  • 12Mourn — Mourn, v. t. 1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail. [1913 Webster] As if he mourned his rival s ill success. Addison. [1913 Webster] And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. Emerson. [1913… …

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  • 13mourn´ful|ness — mourn|ful «MRN fuhl, MOHRN », adjective. 1. full of grief; sad; sorrowful: »a mournful voice. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! (Longfellow). SYNONYM(S): dolorous, melancholy, doleful. 2. causing or attended with… …

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  • 14mourn´ful|ly — mourn|ful «MRN fuhl, MOHRN », adjective. 1. full of grief; sad; sorrowful: »a mournful voice. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! (Longfellow). SYNONYM(S): dolorous, melancholy, doleful. 2. causing or attended with… …

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  • 15mourn|ful — «MRN fuhl, MOHRN », adjective. 1. full of grief; sad; sorrowful: »a mournful voice. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! (Longfellow). SYNONYM(S): dolorous, melancholy, doleful. 2. causing or attended with sorrow or… …

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  • 16mourn — [môrn] vi. [ME mournen < OE murnan; akin to Goth * maúrnan, to be anxious < IE base * (s)mer , to remember: see MERIT] 1. to feel or express sorrow; lament; grieve 2. to grieve for someone who has died; specif., to manifest the conventional …

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  • 17mourn — [v] be sad over loss ache, agonize, anguish, be brokenhearted*, bemoan, be sad, bewail, bleed, blubber, carry on, complain, cry, deplore, fret, grieve, hurt, keen, lament, languish, long for, miss, moan, pine, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sob,… …

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  • 18For The Dear Old Flag, I Die — is a American Civil War song. It was originally a poem written by George Cooper. The music by Stephen Foster was later added in. The song interprets the last words of a brave little drummer boy who was fatally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg …

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  • 19mourn — 01. The entire nation [mourned] the deaths of those killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. 02. We heard a [mournful] sound coming from the old haunted house. 03. The old women were in [mourning], and were dressed completely in… …

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  • 20mourn — verb 1) Isobel mourned her husband Syn: grieve for, sorrow over, lament for, weep for 2) he mourned the loss of the beautiful buildings Syn: deplore, bewail, bemoan, rue, regret •• mourn, bemoan, grieve, lament, rue …

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