sorrow
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Is sorrow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woeExamples: "But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness."; "The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment."Synonyms: dejection, blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distressuncountable
2. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.Examples: "Parting is such sweet sorrow."; "She had nursed all the children, including Sandro, to whom she was devoted, and my husband was just as fond of her. His going away to America was a great sorrow to her, and she always kept the sacred light burning on a little altar for Sandro all the time of his long absence."; "Vaublanc, in San Domingo so sympathetic to the sorrows of labour in France, had to fly from Paris in August, 1792, to escape the wrath of the French workers."Synonyms: misfortune, woe, adversity, apocalypse, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, miserycountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.Examples: "‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’"; "When, as sometimes happens, a lad dies from the effect of the operation, he is buried secretly in the forest, and his sorrowing mother is told that the monster has a pig's stomach as well as a human stomach, and that unfortunately her son slipped into the wrong stomach."Synonyms: grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, engrieve, erme, gloomintransitive
2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.Examples: "It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect."Synonyms: bewail, grieve, begrieve, bemoan, bewail, beweep, condole, deploretransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary