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mourn

 
 
pronunciation:
morn
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part of speech: verb
inflections: mourns, mourning, mourned
definition 1: When you mourn, you feel very sad because someone died or you lost something very important to you.
When Maddy's grandmother died, the family mourned for a very long time.
antonyms:
celebrate
similar words:
cry, sweep
definition 2: When you mourn something, you feel very sad about the loss of it.
People in the town mourned the loss of the beautiful old church, which was destroyed by a fire.
similar words:
regret
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