mournverb [ I or T ]
uk/mɔːn/us/mɔːrn/to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death:
Queen Victoria mourned Prince Albert/Prince Albert's death for 40 years.
She was still mourning for her brother.
They mourned the passing of an older, simpler way of life (= felt sad because it had stopped existing).
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Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- lament
- melancholy
- repent
- rue
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
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Remembering people who have died