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sorrying

sorrying is the present participle and gerund of sorry.

Meaning of sorry

Verb

sorry (third-person singular simple present sorries, present participle sorrying, simple past and past participle sorried)

  1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To feel sorry (for someone).
    • Jus' that once I sorried for her. Souls cross the skies o' time, Abbess'd say, like clouds crossin' skies o' the world.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 302

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Questions about sorrying

What is sorrying the present participle and gerund of?
Sorrying is the present participle and gerund of sorry.

Words near sorrying in the dictionary

  1. Sorry, Charlie
  2. sorry, not sorry
  3. sorry-ass
  4. sorry-not-sorry
  5. sorryful
  6. sorrying
  7. sorryish
  8. sorrys
  9. sorrysome
  10. sors
  11. Sorsele

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sorrying (page history and authors); sorry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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