Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To feel or express grief.

    feel grief

  2. (transitive)To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Examples

164 sentences
  1. Forget your sorrows.

    Забудь про свою печаль.

    ruЗабудь свою печаль.

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  2. The news filled her with sorrow.

    ruНовость глубоко опечалила её.

    deDie Neuigkeit erfüllte sie mit Sorge.

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  3. My heart was filled with sorrow.

    ruМое сердце было наполнено скорбью.

    deMein Herz war voller Sorge.

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  4. Tom's heart was filled with sorrow.

    ruСердце Тома было наполнено печалью.

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  5. Our hearts were full of sorrow.

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Origin

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sor

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.

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Forms

sorrows, sorrowing, sorrowed, sorrowed
Base formsorrow · to sorrow
3rd person singularsorrows
Present participlesorrowing
Past simplesorrowed
Past participlesorrowed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysorrow
he, she, itsorrows

Past simpleLesson

all personssorrowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sorrowed
he, she, ithas sorrowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sorrow

Synonyms

34 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

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