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• v  feel grief
• s  sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• In a chilling wind and rain, sorrowing Britons gathered quietly in the cul-de-sac outside Churchill's red brick house at 28 Hyde Park Gate.
• Suddenly the glory dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned.
• At one point, one of Byrd's daughters embraced a sorrowing Ronald King and whispered, "It's not your fault.

• grieve
• sorrow
• bereaved
• bereft
• grief-stricken
• grieving
• mourning

News & Articles

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• Guest Post: The Honest President
  Submitted by Bill Bonner via Acting-Man blog , “He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.” The quote comes from Ben Franklin. But it was recalled to us neither by America’s president nor Britain’s prime minister. Instead, the Telegraph in London reported it from the mouth of Cheng Siwei, a “top member of the Communist hierarchy.” What goes around comes around. The Anglo-Saxons have forgotten ...
  July 29, 2013 - Zero Hedge

Quotes

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• Reinhold Niebuhr in Heritage.org
  The Christian ideal of love,Niebuhr warned, "has degenerated into a lovelessness which cuts itself off from a sorrowing and suffering world."
• Benjamin Franklin in Seattle Times
  More than two centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin warned: "He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing."
• John Updike in San Francisco Chronicle
  Resplendently poetic and loftily sorrowing,Updike calls the book, which tells the story of a man, born in San Francisco in 1871, who ages in reverse.