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bemourn

bemourn verb: to weep or mourn over.

Verb

bemourn (third-person singular simple present bemourns, present participle bemourning, simple past and past participle bemourned)

  1. (rare, transitive) To weep or mourn over.
    • From the neighbouring settlements and valleys an immense concourse of people collected to bemourn the death of the arii, the Chiefly ladies bleeding themselves more as a matter of form than from grief or real sentiment, […]1974, Douglas L. Oliver, Ancient Tahitian Society

Synonyms of bemourn

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Forms of bemourn

third-person singular presentbemourns
present participlebemourning
past participlebemourned
pastbemourned

Origin of bemourn

From Middle English bemornen, from Old English bemurnan (“to mourn, bewail, deplore, be sorry for, care for, take heed for”), equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + mourn. Cognate with Old Saxon bimornian (“to bemourn”).

Questions about bemourn

What does bemourn mean?
Bemourn means to weep or mourn over.
What part of speech is bemourn?
Bemourn is a verb.
What is the past tense of bemourn?
The past tense of bemourn is bemourned.

Words near bemourn in the dictionary

  1. bemonstering
  2. bemonsters
  3. bemood
  4. bemoradan
  5. bemotrizinol
  6. bemourn
  7. bemourns
  8. bemoustached
  9. bemouth
  10. bemouthed
  11. bemouthing

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