mourn
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
Example:
For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
- nounSorrow, grief.
- verbTo engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.
Example:
In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,167 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 50% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None