• (RP) enPR: sŏr'ō, IPA: /ˈsɒɹəʊ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈsɑɹoʊ/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈsɔɹoʊ/

sorrow

1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe

   • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

2. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

   Parting is such sweet sorrow.

• French: peine, chagrin
• German: Kummer, Traurigkeit, Trauer, Sorge, Kümmernis, Leiden, Gram
• Italian: tristezza, dolore, pena, afflizione, infelicità
• Portuguese: tristeza, mágoa, pesar
• Russian: го́ре
• Spanish: tristeza, aflicción, infelicidad, pesar, pesadumbre, dolor, pena, sinsabor, quebranto

• Russian: го́ре

sorrow (sorrows, present participle sorrowing; past and past participle sorrowed)

1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

     ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     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.

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