(n.) One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
(n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Witnesses said that riot police and crowds of protesters had been waiting for the mourners as the service ended.
(2) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
(3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(4) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
(5) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
(6) Thousands of Palestinian mourners carried the burned body of 17-year Mohammed Abu Khdeir through the streets of an East Jerusalem suburb on Friday.
(7) The roads, which construction workers began after his first serious bout of ill health, will carry mourners to Mandela's grave site.
(8) One showed a Protestant attack on mourners at a Catholic funeral.
(9) The suspicions of most of those mourners – that a police officer killed Peach – were all but confirmed in yesterday's report.
(10) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(11) Among the mourners were General Aslam Beg, a former army chief, and General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
(12) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
(13) Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Marine Richard Hollington, who became the 300th British servicemen to die in Afghanistan after he was injured in a blast in Sangin on 12 June.
(14) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
(15) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
(16) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
(17) This last featured one of his most striking stage images: the funeral on an isolated cliff edge, the black-clad mourners standing beside a piano.
(18) Eight people died at the funeral when unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners.
(19) Mourners were asked to make a donation to Amnesty International, the organisation to which Reynolds used to send his fees when he wrote occasional pieces for the Guardian.
(20) Thousands of mourners paid their final respects Friday to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago for reasons that authorities say may never become clear.
Mute
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.
(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
(n.) The dung of birds.
(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(2) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(3) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
(4) to produce speech for the mute, man-machine communication through speech in industry control, data processing systems and uses in audiological diagnostics.
(5) Ten months on, reactions are likely to be more muted.
(6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(7) Likewise, his criticism of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill , which proposed the death penalty for same-sex acts, was muted.
(8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(9) Additional studies revealed that the muted effects of PTHrP occurred via a PTH-independent mechanism.
(10) Winning a majority muted that speculation without eradicating the ambitions that fuelled it.
(11) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(12) While calling for an end to the violence and democratic reform, western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings and repression in Syria for fear of destabilising the country, which plays a strategic role across the Middle East.
(13) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
(14) It appeared, however, that she was muting her resistance to an expanded if limited ECB role, clearing the way for central bank and International Monetary Fund interventions that might take the edge off the immediate emergency and provide a breathing space for a more systemic political response.
(15) Indeed, the language of the ethic of care may give a voice to nurses who previously felt morally mute.
(16) Lysosomal enzyme secretion in response to thrombin treatment was partially reduced in muted platelets and markedly reduced in mocha platelets.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Even in the wake of Newtown, the shift toward gun safety policies has been relatively muted .
(19) Violence, public and domestic, in peace and war, is muted by the modulated tones of civilised life.
(20) If I had been seeing red upon learning the dark projections for my health, my world was returning to its known colors, now muted with that knowledge that comes eventually for everyone: that the body is not the friend you thought was.