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单词 mourn
释义 mourn
\ˈmō(ə)rn, ˈmȯ(ə)rn, ˈmōən, ˈmȯ(ə)n\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English mournen, mornen, from Old English murnan; akin to Old High German mornēn to mourn, sorrow, Old Norse morna, Gothic maurnan to mourn, sorrow, Greek mermeros anxious — more at memory
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to be sorry : feel or express deep regret
  < announced his resignation and everybody mourned >
 b. archaic : to look or act unhappy : droop, pine
  < flowers … rejoice at the presence of the sun; and mourn at the absence thereof — Francis Bacon >
  < cattle mourned for want of milkers — Samuel Purchas >
2.
 a. : to be sorrowful over a death : grieve
  < time is the great solace of those who mourn >
  < a service which seems spoken by the dead man himself to those who mourn — Walter Besant & James Rice >
 b. : to exhibit the conventional signs of mourning; especially : to wear black
  < grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year — Alexander Pope >
3.
 a. : to murmur mournfully — used especially of doves
 b. dialect : moan
transitive verb
1. : to be distressed over : bewail, protest
 < led a funeral procession up … Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms — Time >
 < hairsplitting statesmen … may mourn the passing of our subjunctive — Weston La Barre >
2. : to grieve for (someone who has died)
 < she was mourned by thousands of persons whose lives she had touched — A.J.Kennedy >
3. : to utter mournfully
 < let the whirlwind mourn its requiem — W.S.Gilbert >
Synonyms: see grieve
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