mourn
verb/mɔːn/
/mɔːrn/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mourn | /mɔːn/ /mɔːrn/ |
| he / she / it mourns | /mɔːnz/ /mɔːrnz/ |
| past simple mourned | /mɔːnd/ /mɔːrnd/ |
| past participle mourned | /mɔːnd/ /mɔːrnd/ |
| -ing form mourning | /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈmɔːrnɪŋ/ |
- to feel and show that you are sad because somebody has died; to feel sad because something no longer exists or is no longer the same
哀悼；（因失去…而）忧伤 - Please, leave us to mourn in peace.
请让我们安静地哀悼。 - mourn something He was still mourning his brother's death.
他仍然在为哥哥的去世而悲伤。 - They mourn the passing of a simpler way of life.
较为淳朴的生活方式一去不返，他们为此而惋惜。 - The city was mourning the victims of the bombings.
该市正在哀悼爆炸事件的受害者。 - mourn (for somebody/something) Today we mourn for all those who died in two world wars.
今天，我们悼念两次世界大战中的所有死难者。 - She mourned for her lost childhood.
她为失去的童年而伤感。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMourn is used with these nouns as the object:- death
- loss
- passing
- …
Word OriginOld English murnan, of Germanic origin. - Please, leave us to mourn in peace.
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