SORROWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorrowing mean? 

• SORROWING (adjective)
  The adjective SORROWING has 1 sense:

1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation

  Familiarity information: SORROWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORROWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Synonyms:

bereaved; bereft; grief-stricken; grieving; mourning; sorrowing

Context example:

bereft of hope

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And yet, said Anne to herself, as they now moved forward to meet the party, he has not, perhaps, a more sorrowing heart than I have.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Price talked of her poor sister for a few minutes, but how to find anything to hold Susan's clothes, because Rebecca took away all the boxes and spoilt them, was much more in her thoughts: and as for Susan, now unexpectedly gratified in the first wish of her heart, and knowing nothing personally of those who had sinned, or of those who were sorrowing—if she could help rejoicing from beginning to end, it was as much as ought to be expected from human virtue at fourteen.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Catherine had not read three lines before her sudden change of countenance, and short exclamations of sorrowing wonder, declared her to be receiving unpleasant news; and Henry, earnestly watching her through the whole letter, saw plainly that it ended no better than it began.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Even a sceptic, who can see nothing but a travesty of bitter truth in anything holy or emotional, would have been melted to the heart had he seen that little group of loving and devoted friends kneeling round that stricken and sorrowing lady; or heard the tender passion of her husband's voice, as in tones so broken with emotion that often he had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial of the Dead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)