单词 | mourn |
释义 | mourn intransitive verb 1. a. < announced his resignation and everybody mourned > b. archaic < 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. < 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. < grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year — Alexander Pope > 3. a. b. dialect transitive verb 1. < led a funeral procession up … Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms — Time > < hairsplitting statesmen … may mourn the passing of our subjunctive — Weston La Barre > 2. < she was mourned by thousands of persons whose lives she had touched — A.J.Kennedy > 3. < let the whirlwind mourn its requiem — W.S.Gilbert > Synonyms: see grieve |
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