mourn

About 1.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   For two months, she mourned her father's passing.

2. verb To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.

   In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.

3. verb To utter in a sorrowful manner.
4. verb To wear mourning.
5. noun Sorrow, grief.
6. noun A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Similar words

grieving sorrowful sorrowing grief-stricken bereavement bereft bereaved grieve lament deplore

Often followed by

the for over and his her their in with

Word family

mourned mourner mourners mourning mourningly mourns