Mourn

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mourn, v. i. [AS. murnan; akin to OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. maúrnan.].

•  To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her."  [1913 Webster]
•  To wear the customary garb of a mourner.  [1913 Webster]

  "We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year."  [1913 Webster]

Mourn, v. t. 

•  To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.  [1913 Webster]

  "As if he mourned his rival's ill success."  [1913 Webster]

  "And looking over the hills, I mourn
  The darling who shall not return."  [1913 Webster]
•  To utter in a mournful manner or voice.  [1913 Webster]

  "The lovelorn nightingale
  Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- See Deplore.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mourn, v.
1 tr. & (foll. by for) intr. feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (a dead person, a lost thing, a past event, etc.).
2 intr. show conventional signs of grief for a period after a person's death.

Etymology

OE murnan

THESAURUS

Mourn

ache, agonize, bemoan, bewail, bleed, brood over, deplore, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, elegize, fret, give sorrow words, grieve, grieve over, keen, knell, lament, moan, mope, pain, pine, pine away, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, take on, weep for, weep over

ROGET THESAURUS

Mourn

Pain

VB feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain, smart, ache, suffer, bleed, ail, be the victim of, labor under afflictions, bear the cross, quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it, fall on evil days, go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, sup full of horrors, sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume, take on, take to heart, cark, grieve, mourn, yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink, give way, despair, break one's heart, weigh upon the heart.

Dejection

VB be dejected, grieve, mourn, take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink, lower, look downcast, frown, pout, hang down the head, pull a long face, make a long face, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, grin a ghastly smile, look blue, look like a drowned man, lay to heart, take to heart, mope, brood over, fret, sulk, pine, pine away, yearn, repine, despair, refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance, be grave, look grave, repress a smile, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart, frown upon, cast a gloom, cast a shade on, sadden, damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes, weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits, damp the spirits, depress the spirits.

Lamentation

VB lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over, bewail, bemoan, condole with, fret, wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning, wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes, infandum renovare dolorem, give sorrow words, sigh, give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh, waft a sigh from Indus to the pole, sigh 'like a furnace', wail, cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule, pipe one's eye, drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear, melt into tears, burst into tears, fondre en larmes, cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out, yammer, scream, mew, groan, moan, whine, roar, roar like a bull, bellow like a bull, cry out lustily, rend the air, frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief, complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder, deprecate, cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.