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sorrow

Definition

  • noun: a feeling of sadness or grief caused especially by the loss of someone or something
  • noun: deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved
  • verb: to feel or express sorrow
  • synonyms: grief, sadness, affliction

Examples

  • ('chiefly Brit') He spoke 'more in sorrow than in anger'. [=because of sadness or disappointment rather than anger]

  • He went to the bar to 'drown his sorrows'. [=to forget about the things that were making him sad by getting drunk]

  • a 'sorrowing' mother, grieving over the death of her son

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) while people are away risking their lives for the Fatherland. (BUZZING) - "My people's density is my density." - Destiny. "Its struggles and its sorrows, its joys and its miseries are mine. "I must work and create for the resurrection of my Fatherland. "The history of my people (..)
    2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas