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[ UK /mˈɔːn/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹn/ ]
VERB
  1. observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
  2. feel sadness
    She is mourning her dead child

How To Use mourn In A Sentence

  • You've probably guessed that his Mum was the one who died unhappy and unmourned a couple of years back.
  • Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • As the family mourns and close relatives shave their heads, the body is transported to the funeral ghat (bank along a river), where prayers are recited.
  • Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
  • And it becomes all of us to mourn, and to humble ourselves before him in penitent sorrow. The Nation's Mourning. A Sermon Preached Before the Congregational Church and Society in Green's Farms, Conn., on the Day of the National Fast, Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, June 1st, 1865.
  • Afterwards, mourners were invited for refreshments by the nuns.
  • A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
  • (O father of a felt calotte!) 75 In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes, like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And, as is customary, the families would erect a mourning tent.
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