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sorrow

Pronunciation: /ˈsɒɹəʊ/

The English word “sorrow” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. unhappiness, woe
  2. (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

verb

  1. To feel or express grief.
  2. To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Etymology

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”),…

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