单词 | overmourn |
释义 | overmournv. 1. transitive. To mourn (a person, a person's death, etc.) excessively. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief [verb (intransitive)] > excessively overmourn1594 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia Argt. Hauing ouer-mourn'd the death of her deere husband. 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1656) x. 281 When he dies we mourn and usually overmourn. 1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Jan. i. 1/3 People who ‘overmourn’ the loss of a pregnancy, some say, may be transferring their pain over other issues. 2002 Akron (Ohio) Beacon Jrnl. (Nexis) 28 June b1 Let us not overmourn the end of PI (even if it is impossible not to overmourn its eventual successor). ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 302 Least the Mare ouer-mourne her selfe for want of hir foale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1594 |
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