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oversorrow

oversorrow verb: to grieve or afflict excessively.

Verb

oversorrow (third-person singular simple present oversorrows, present participle oversorrowing, simple past and past participle oversorrowed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To grieve or afflict excessively.
    • He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that...1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton
    • " Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."1818, Annabella Plumptre, Tales of wonder, of humour, and of sentiment

Forms of oversorrow

third-person singular presentoversorrows
present participleoversorrowing
past participleoversorrowed
pastoversorrowed

Origin of oversorrow

From over- + sorrow.

Words formed from oversorrow

Questions about oversorrow

What does oversorrow mean?
Oversorrow means to grieve or afflict excessively.
What part of speech is oversorrow?
Oversorrow is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversorrow?
The past tense of oversorrow is oversorrowed.

Words near oversorrow in the dictionary

  1. Oversons
  2. oversoon
  3. oversoothing
  4. oversophisticated
  5. oversophistication
  6. oversorrow
  7. oversorrowed
  8. oversorrowing
  9. oversorrows
  10. oversot
  11. oversoul

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