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Synonyms for mourn
mɔrn, moʊrnmourn

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 5 votes

  1. mourn

    To mourn is to feel or express sadness or distress because of some loss, affliction, or misfortune; mourning is thought of as prolonged, grief or regret may be transient. One may grieve or mourn, regret, rue, or sorrow without a sound; he bemoans with suppressed and often inarticulate sounds of grief; he bewails with passionate utterance, whether of inarticulate cries or of spoken words. He laments in plaintive or pathetic words, as the prophet Jeremiah in his "Lamentations." One deplores with settled sorrow which may or may not find relief in words. One is made to rue an act by some misfortune resulting, or by some penalty or vengeance inflicted because of it. One regrets a slight misfortune or a hasty word; he sorrows over the death of a friend.

    Synonyms:
    bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, lament, regret, rue, sorrow

    Antonyms:
    be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, rejoice, triumph

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mournverb

    feel sadness

    "She is mourning her dead child"

  2. mournverb

    observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mournverb

    Synonyms:
    grieve, lament, be sorrowful

  2. mournverb

    Synonyms:
    deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. mournverb

    Synonyms:
    deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan, bewail

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "mourn":

    cry, mourns, crying, deplore, haddad, mourning, bereavement, weep, lament, whine

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  1. James Shea:

    Director of Public Safety James Shea told reporters Friday. Based on what we know now, the amount of guns, the amount of ammunition, the fact that they had explosive devices -- we would have to assume they planned to do a lot more damage than we allowed them to do. THOUSANDS MOURN, ATTEND FUNERALS FOR Jersey City SHOOTING VICTIMS Police officers stand near the scene of a gun fight at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Thursday. Anderson and Graham appear to have acted alone even though they had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe religious group that often disparages whites and Jews, New Jersey officials have said. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Thursday that the attack was driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement and is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism. The evidence points toward acts of hate. I can confirm that were investigating this matter as potential acts of domestic terrorism fueled both by anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal added that social media posts, witness interviews and other evidence reflected the couples hatred of Jews and police. Orthodox Jewish men carry Moshe Deutsch's casket outside a Brooklyn synagogue following Moshe Deutsch funeral on Wednesday in New York. Moshe Deutsch was one of the victims killed in Tuesday's shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The attackers killed three people in the market, in addition to the police officer at a cemetery about a mile away, before dying in an hourslong gunbattle with police Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Public Safety James Shea called Seals the ultimate detective or officer we would point to to tell young officers, This is how you should behave.

  2. Queen Naa:

    A significant part of funerals is bringing families together to embrace through handshakes, hugs and to mourn in close proximity of one another, the immediate implication of what is now taking place is that families will be unable to connect. This is something that has never happened in generations and it is definitely going to have a social impact.

  3. Hilaria Baldwin:

    I brought [Alec] up here because we have to mourn Halyna’s death, alec had a really traumatic thing happen, and I am trying to limit the PTSD.

  4. Patrick Lynch:

    They wanted to protect you from that evil. Now one of them has died doing exactly that, and the other is fighting for his life. We respectfully ask you, once again: Please join us to mourn Police Officer Jason Rivera as if he was your own flesh and blood. And please pray for our injured brother, because he is your injured brother, too.

  5. Will Smith:

    Today, Jada & I mourn with all of you the loss of a beautiful poet, a true inspiration, and one of the most magnificent artists to ever grace this earth, prince.


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