English

Noun

sorrow ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)

1. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
   • Rambler

     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.

Translations

Verb

sorrow ‎(third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple 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, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     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.

References

• “sorrow” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "sorrow" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.