mourn

verb
🔊/mɔːn/
🔊/mɔːrn/
[transitive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they mourn
🔊/mɔːn/
🔊/mɔːrn/
he / she / it mourns
🔊/mɔːnz/
🔊/mɔːrnz/
past simple mourned
🔊/mɔːnd/
🔊/mɔːrnd/
past participle mourned
🔊/mɔːnd/
🔊/mɔːrnd/
-ing form mourning
🔊/ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
🔊/ˈmɔːrnɪŋ/
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  1. to feel and show that you are sad because somebody has died; to feel sad because something no longer exists or is no longer the same (因失去…而)哀悼,忧伤synonym grieve
    • Please, leave us to mourn in peace.拜托,让我们为和平而哀悼。
    • mourn something He was still mourning his brother's death.他仍然在为哥哥的去世而悲伤。🔊🔊
    • They mourn the passing of a simpler way of life.他们对较为淳朴的生活的消逝感到惋惜。🔊🔊
    • The city was mourning the victims of the bombings.这个城市正在哀悼爆炸的受害者。
    • mourn (for somebody/something) Today we mourn for all those who died in two world wars.今天,我们向所有在两次世界大战中死难的人表示哀悼。🔊🔊
    • She mourned for her lost childhood.她为失去的童年而伤感。🔊🔊
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMourn is used with these nouns as the object:
    • death
    • loss
    • passing
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    Word OriginOld English murnan, of Germanic origin.