Vocabulary
Mourn
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
feel or show sorrow for the death of (someone), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
Urdu meaning
ماتم کرنا، غم کا اظہار کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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And Imran well, we`renot even allowed to speak his name, let alone question, forget mourn, what`s being done to him.
Dawn Editorials —
Grief denied
— 2026-02-15
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Thousands of beautiful trees had to be cut; we miss and mourn them, but it had to be done.Every year, the dengue season arrives without fail; a bite from an infected Aedes mosquito causes fever, and repeated bouts can be fatal.
Dawn Editorials —
Doggone morality
— 2025-12-26
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At this moment of sadness, someone came to sympathise with the family, but the head of the household said it would have been better had he died instead, as then the family would mourn for a few days but life would then go on.
Dawn Editorials —
Reading nature
— 2025-12-19
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However, the loss of the buffalo, he said, made his family not only mourn but also starve.There are thousands of such stories, describing the plight of affected people who have been left penniless due to the disaster.
Dawn Editorials —
Reading nature
— 2025-12-19
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Some have lost entire families, while others mourn a child, a sibling, a parent, a spouse or a friend murdered by the Zionist regime.
Dawn Editorials —
After the slaughter
— 2025-10-12
Synonyms
grieve for, sorrow over, lament for, weep for, shed tears for/over, wail/keen over, plain for
Curator example
“Isobel mourned her husband”
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