sorrow
To feel or express griefTo feel or express grief.
» Forget your sorrows.
Забудь свою печаль. — shanghainese
Забудь свои печали. — marafon
Забудь про свою печаль. — uaspeaker
Забудь свій сум. — aandrusiak
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2 senses(intransitive)To feel or express grief.
feel grief
(transitive)To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Examples
164 sentencesForget your sorrows.
Забудь про свою печаль. — uaspeaker
ruЗабудь свою печаль. — shanghainese
The news filled her with sorrow.
ruНовость глубоко опечалила её. — Hellerick
deDie Neuigkeit erfüllte sie mit Sorge. — Tamy
My heart was filled with sorrow.
ruМое сердце было наполнено скорбью. — Balamax
deMein Herz war voller Sorge. — Tamy
Tom's heart was filled with sorrow.
ruСердце Тома было наполнено печалью. — marafon
Our hearts were full of sorrow.
Origin
From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorFrom 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, sorrowedSynonyms
34 synonymsWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.