dirge

as in lament
a composition expressing one's grief over a loss bagpipes played a haunting dirge at the funeral for the fallen leader

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Recent Examples of dirge Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night. Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025 As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2025 But today that moral arc is as twisted as a gnarled, rotten root, and God Bless America has been replaced by the mournful dirge of Taps. Marci Alborghetti, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025 The dummy cars were set on fire while a band played a funeral dirge. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2012 See All Example Sentences for dirge
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Noun
  • But a loss is a loss, 1-5 is 1-5, and McDaniel’s lament is pure truth.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Harmony Holiday’s elegy/essay for D’Angelo is a stunning piece of writing.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, the snippet sounds like an elegy for Bryan’s vision of America.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Duke of York retreated from public life in November 2019 after a car crash interview with the BBC about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, but attended the requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
    Megan Thomas, CNN Money, 27 June 2025

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“Dirge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirge. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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