mourned

verb

past tense of mourn
1
as in grieved
to feel deep sadness or mental pain we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death

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2
as in lamented
to feel or express sorrow for an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater

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Recent Examples of mourned Following her sudden death, Panettiere’s Nashville castmates — among her other costars and peers — mourned the actress. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026 Friends and colleagues mourned Panettiere’s death on social media. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026 Seen by the public as a champion for liberalization, Hu had been deposed two years earlier and his death on April 15 was widely mourned. — Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 When, in 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle died at age 71, readers around the world mourned his passing. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 Martinez's grandmother, Debbie Gallegos Martinez, publicly mourned her grandson after the crash. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Many fans also mourned the late Bob Saget, who died in 2022 from accidental blunt head trauma. — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 D’Arcy closes the window with an air of steely resolve, and in doing so declares the Rhaenyra who might have mourned her half-sister as dead and gone. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 Before the service in Kyiv, Yukov was mourned and honored in his hometown of Sloviansk in Donetsk province. — Scott Neuman, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mourned
  1. grieved
  2. lamented
  3. sighed
  4. regretted
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  • The family grieved quietly, rarely speaking to one another about what happened, Phan said.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • We are further grieved by continuing violence and instability in the Middle East, including the recent conflict involving Iran and its widening humanitarian consequences.
    — Killingly-Brooklyn Interfaith Council, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
Definition of grieved
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  • Authorities allege Mangione tracked Thompson after laying out plans to kill him in a manifesto that lamented corporate abuse and deadly greed in the health insurance industry.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • For years, Rivian owners have lamented the absence of captain’s chairs in the R1S, noting that the three-row SUV would be much improved with standalone seats instead of a bench in the second row.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of lamented
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  • But Taylor eventually sighed and launched into an answer on his own.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • Yet another review of EAR audio found that people who sighed frequently were not necessarily burdened by negative emotions.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
Definition of sighed
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  • The bet was clearly a lighthearted joke between friends, but after posting it, the WNBA seems to have regretted the optics of the league promoting two players gambling on a game, which is prohibited in the league’s collective bargaining agreement.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026
  • Plenty of incumbents have brushed off the threat Elon Musk posed to their businesses and regretted it.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
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