mourned
past simple and past participle ofmourn
| 单词 | mourned |
| 释义 | mourned past simple and past participle ofmourn mourn verb[IorT] uk/mɔːn/us/mɔːrn/tofeelorexpressgreatsadness,especiallybecause of someone'sdeath: Queen Victoria mourned Prince Albert/Prince Albert'sdeathfor 40years. She was still mourningforherbrother. They mourned thepassingofanolder,simplerway oflife(=feltsadbecause it hadstoppedexisting). Sadness and regret
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Remembering people who have died Examplesofmournedmourned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Parents were heartbroken at the death of a child, butmournedan older child more than a young infant. From theCambridge English Corpus In a healthy subject, the loss is introjected -mournedand grieved for, accepted as a part of reality, and worked through. From theCambridge English Corpus The gaps aremournedas lacunae - deaths - but the acknowledgement of loss becomes in itself cause for quiet rejoicing. From theCambridge English Corpus This recent definition sums up in particular the attitudes of early-to late-nineteenth-century critics and afficionados whomournedthe passing of more than individual singers. From theCambridge English Corpus No onemournedthe dead, or prayed for them or spoke to them. From theCambridge English Corpus His death will bemournedthroughout the international music education community. From theCambridge English Corpus While the countrymourned, medical scientists vowed that this would not happen again. From theCambridge English Corpus Not a single voice expressed a desire to reverse the legislation ormournedthe loss of employers' primary responsibility for pensions. From theCambridge English Corpus Old military traditions and values have long denied deserters and ' shirkers ' the right to be publicly remembered ormourned. From theCambridge English Corpus The remembrance advertisements mourning and commemorating army personnel who meet their death prematurely in the battlefield contain certain hints which tell unmistakably about the person beingmournedor remembered. From theCambridge English Corpus Caine raises the chthonic references of the original to the level of formal liturgy, and in doing so seems to ask the question of whose farewell is beingmourned. From theCambridge English Corpus They havemournedwith us in our sorrows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a line that says hemournedthe fact there were "none to cry halt while the world trekked back from progress". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to finish off with a few words for the victims, for it is right that they should be remembered andmourned. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English We have had over a long time a number of debates in which we havemournedthe fishing industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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