verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mourn sb's death (= feel very sad after someone has died )
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The entertainment world was last night mourning the actor's death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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Although their families still mourn their loss, they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives.
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They still mourned the loss of their old identity.
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He really did believe she was still mourning Tony.
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His wife of 54 years, Carol, had died the year before, and he was still mourning her.
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Andrej, still mourned , was a hard act to follow.
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The Moors wept at leaving Granada and still mourn its loss in their evening prayers.
■ NOUN
death
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He becomes one of the essential features of a good detective story-a victim whose death readers do not mourn .
loss
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Although their families still mourn their loss , they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives.
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How I envy him his focus and how I mourn for him his loss .
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The Moors wept at leaving Granada and still mourn its loss in their evening prayers.
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In this house the Walls raised nine children, and mourned the loss of three other babies.
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I had been so in love with her, and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling.
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In the case of divorce, the child also mourns the loss of his original family constellation.
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Remember: They may still be mourning the loss of the parent who has died or left home.
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The years fall away and Pennington is a lonely little boy, mourning the loss of his three big sisters.
people
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Amid all the pride and sadness, the people of Candlestick mourned the death of a spirit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the neighbours and relations who had come to mourn stood around the coffin.
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His death was mourned by hundreds of former pupils and countless friends.
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Hundreds of people gathered to mourn the slain president.
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My mother never stopped mourning for my sister Frances, who died when she was four.
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Residents mourned the loss of the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Depression is something we allow to happen if we choose not to mourn .
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How I envy him his focus and how I mourn for him his loss.
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In this house the Walls raised nine children, and mourned the loss of three other babies.
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She drew me close and comforted me as I mourned my child and the bond between us had never been stronger.
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Then Priam brought Hector home, mourned in Troy as never another.