sorrowing
present participle ofsorrow
sorrow
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
formaluk/ˈsɒr.əʊ/us/ˈsɔːr.oʊ/tofeelgreatsadness:
Foryearsshe sorrowedoverhermissingson.
Compare
grieve
Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side ofyourfaceidiom
- bite
- haunt
- heartbreaker
- heartbreakingly
- hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
- horrify
- mess
- nose
- sensitivity
- shake
- shakesomeoneup
- shake/rocksomethingtoitsfoundationsidiom
- shattering
- shocker
- sorrow
- tear
Examplesofsorrowing
sorrowing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Even listeners disposed to hear a spacioussorrowingin the relatively understated final stages will find it difficult to reduce this to a plea for pity or compassion.
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We have the profoundest sympathy for the bereaved and thesorrowingwhose homes have been darkened by the outrages that have taken place.
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I went to see hissorrowingwife and family.
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The purpose of such instruction is that the wrong body is not unfortunately delivered to the wrongsorrowingrelatives.
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It is important to take the audience into the minds of the grieving parents or thesorrowingwife or husband.
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I do not believe that is how he would like to be remembered by hissorrowingcountrymen.
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We must therefore make it as difficult as possible for such ghouls to gain any clue as to the identity ofsorrowingfamilies.
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It is hissorrowingfamily who are interviewed, his words and actions that become famous and his last moments that are lovingly described.
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What can we say to the suffering relatives, the bereaved children and thesorrowingparents?
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It was a criminal act from the point of view of the boys themselves, and a much more substantial apology ought to have been made to theirsorrowingparents.
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Why are they determined to give solace and comfort to the malefactor, yet refuse sympathy and compassion and justice to the injured party, or to his or hersorrowingrelatives?
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Even with the brick addition, which is larger than the original adobe, the rooms could hold but a small part of thesorrowingfriends....
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We, hissorrowingfamily of disciples, mourn his passing but shall ever continue to invoke his spirit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is consolatory, however, to know that in his last moments he was able to express contrition, and hissorrowingfriends have hope in his death.
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