Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mourn
IPA transcription: [m'ɔɹn]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mourn
    Meaning: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
  • Synonyms: mourn
    Meaning: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
Usage examples
  • I mourn for her so much that I cannot rest.
  • Poor mammy will mourn over me and coddle me up as if I'd been to the wars.
  • You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.
  • The lost prospect of a journey as sole passenger with this quarrelsome sot was not one to mourn over. I turned towards Montgomery.
  • The Caliph's eyes filled with tears and he condoled with her; but she ceased not to mourn for her father, till she followed him--Allah have mercy on the twain!
  • He wrote to me that he was not afraid of smallpox and wanted to gain the experience; and now the disease has killed him, and I, old and grey and withered, am left to mourn over him, without a chick or child to comfort me.
  • The tragedy is interwoven with the history of the trans-Alleghany border; and schoolboys have in many lands and tongues recited the pathetic defense of the poor Mingo, who, more sinned against than sinning, was crushed in the inevitable struggle between savagery and civilization. "Who is there to mourn for Logan?"
  • James was learning the carpenter trade; but he was anxious to obtain his freedom, and finding his two companions true on the main question, in conjunction with them he contrived a plan of escape, and 'took out.' His father and mother, Harrison and Jane Taylor, were left at Fredericksburg to mourn the absence of their son.