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{
"term": "mourn",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "mourn",
"heSheIt": "mourns"
},
"pastSimple": "mourned",
"pastParticiple": "mourned",
"ingForm": "mourning"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to feel and show that you are sad because somebody has died; to feel sad because something no longer exists or is no longer the same",
"sensetop": "mourn somethingmourn (for somebody/something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Please, leave us to mourn in peace."
},
{
"text": "He was still mourning his brother's death.",
"contextForm": "mourn something"
},
{
"text": "They mourn the passing of a simpler way of life."
},
{
"text": "The city was mourning the victims of the bombings."
},
{
"text": "Today we mourn for all those who died in two world wars.",
"contextForm": "mourn (for somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "She mourned for her lost childhood."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːn/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourn__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːnz/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourns__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːnd/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourned__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɔːnɪŋ/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourning__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːrn/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourn__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːrnz/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourns__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɔːrnd/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourned__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɔːrnɪŋ/",
"audio": "mo/mourn/mourning__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English murnan, of Germanic origin."
}