Mourn
verb
To feel or show deep sadness or regret because someone has died.
We all mourned when grandmother passed away.
Often appears as...
- mourn a death
- mourn the loss
verb
To express sadness or sorrow for something that is gone or changed.
He was still mourning the end of his marriage.
Often appears as...
- mourn over
- mourn a loss
verb
To feel or show deep sadness or regret because someone has died.
We all mourned when grandmother passed away.
Often appears as...
- mourn a death
- mourn the loss
verb
To express sadness or sorrow for something that is gone or changed.
He was still mourning the end of his marriage.
Often appears as...
- mourn over
- mourn a loss
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Human Emotion
Mourn usually describes a deep emotional response to death.
She could hardly speak as she mourned her husband.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Period
Mourning can last for a long time and is not limited to immediate aftermath.
Many years after the war, people still mourn the fallen.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Expression
Mourn includes public expressions of grief, like funerals or memorials.
The entire community gathered to mourn the local hero.
Pro Tip 1/3Human Emotion
Mourn usually describes a deep emotional response to death.
She could hardly speak as she mourned her husband.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Period
Mourning can last for a long time and is not limited to immediate aftermath.
Many years after the war, people still mourn the fallen.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Expression
Mourn includes public expressions of grief, like funerals or memorials.
The entire community gathered to mourn the local hero.
Pro Tip 1/3Human Emotion
Mourn usually describes a deep emotional response to death.
She could hardly speak as she mourned her husband.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Period
Mourning can last for a long time and is not limited to immediate aftermath.
Many years after the war, people still mourn the fallen.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Expression
Mourn includes public expressions of grief, like funerals or memorials.
The entire community gathered to mourn the local hero.
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Video examples
Elephants Being...
They perform consolation behaviour, reassuring others in distress through soothing vocalisations and comforting gestures with their trunks. They also help each other in times of need and even appear to mourn the death of friends and family just like humans. These behaviours can be seen in close-knit elephant families,
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Rare Footage: Wild...
know if elephants are mourning when I think of mourning I mean I think of that as a term that I only know really applied to humans you know if a person I know loses somebody in their life I can ask them how they're feeling and they can tell me about grief I can't do that
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How smart are dolphins?...
The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe. And like us, dolphins mourn their dead. When we consider all the evidence,
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Why should you read “The...
after her drowning. As the family mourns, lilies curl and crisp in the hot church. A baby bat crawls up a funeral sari. Tears drip from a chin like raindrops from a roof. The novel forays into the past to explore the characters’ struggles
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Elephants' Incredible...
perform consolation behavior reassuring others in distress through soothing vocalizations and comforting gestures with their trunks they also help each other in times of need and even appear to mourn the death of friends and family
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History vs. Che Guevara...
before he could do much damage. While doing plenty of damage themselves in the process. So that was the end of it? Not at all. As Che said, the revolution is immortal. He was publicly mourned in cities all over the world.
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Why elephants never...
is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
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The tragic myth of...
Their jealousy drove them to a frenzy and they destroyed poor Orpheus. The birds, nature’s singers, mourned Orpheus, as did the rivers, who made music as they babbled. The world had lost two great souls.
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Poetic performance and...
so fast I always wake up dizzy so maybe one day you'll grow tired of the road and roll on back to me and when I blink my eyes into mourning your smile will be the only one I see
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A burial practice that...
They offer public trails, places for spiritual practice, places for classes and events -- places where nature and mourning meet. Most importantly, they offer us, once again,
Video examples
Elephants Being...
They perform consolation behaviour, reassuring others in distress through soothing vocalisations and comforting gestures with their trunks. They also help each other in times of need and even appear to mourn the death of friends and family just like humans. These behaviours can be seen in close-knit elephant families,
Video examples
Rare Footage: Wild...
know if elephants are mourning when I think of mourning I mean I think of that as a term that I only know really applied to humans you know if a person I know loses somebody in their life I can ask them how they're feeling and they can tell me about grief I can't do that
Video examples
How smart are dolphins?...
The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe. And like us, dolphins mourn their dead. When we consider all the evidence,
Video examples
Why should you read “The...
after her drowning. As the family mourns, lilies curl and crisp in the hot church. A baby bat crawls up a funeral sari. Tears drip from a chin like raindrops from a roof. The novel forays into the past to explore the characters’ struggles
Video examples
Elephants' Incredible...
perform consolation behavior reassuring others in distress through soothing vocalizations and comforting gestures with their trunks they also help each other in times of need and even appear to mourn the death of friends and family
Video examples
History vs. Che Guevara...
before he could do much damage. While doing plenty of damage themselves in the process. So that was the end of it? Not at all. As Che said, the revolution is immortal. He was publicly mourned in cities all over the world.
Video examples
Why elephants never...
is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
Video examples
The tragic myth of...
Their jealousy drove them to a frenzy and they destroyed poor Orpheus. The birds, nature’s singers, mourned Orpheus, as did the rivers, who made music as they babbled. The world had lost two great souls.
Video examples
Poetic performance and...
so fast I always wake up dizzy so maybe one day you'll grow tired of the road and roll on back to me and when I blink my eyes into mourning your smile will be the only one I see
Video examples
A burial practice that...
They offer public trails, places for spiritual practice, places for classes and events -- places where nature and mourning meet. Most importantly, they offer us, once again,
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Quote examples
Jermaine Jackson
American Musician
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
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John Pearson
British Theologian
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
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Rachel Corrie
American Activist
We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
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Rose Kennedy
American Author
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Rohit Saraf
My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Gillian Anderson
American Actress
To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
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Ferdinand Marcos
Filipino Statesman
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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William Wordsworth
English Poet
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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Margaret Trudeau
Canadian Author
We don't help people mourn in our society.
Quote examples
Jermaine Jackson
American Musician
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
Quote examples
John Pearson
British Theologian
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
Quote examples
Rachel Corrie
American Activist
We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.
Quote examples
Rose Kennedy
American Author
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
Quote examples
Rohit Saraf
My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.
Quote examples
Lord Byron
British Poet
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Quote examples
Gillian Anderson
American Actress
To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
Quote examples
Ferdinand Marcos
Filipino Statesman
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
Quote examples
William Wordsworth
English Poet
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Quote examples
Margaret Trudeau
Canadian Author
We don't help people mourn in our society.
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