mourn

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To feel and show deep sadness, especially because someone has died.

   For two months, she mourned her father's death.

2. 2
   verb

   To feel sad about the loss or end of something.

   Many fans mourned the closing of the old cinema.

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

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