Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oversorrow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-sor-row
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To grieve or afflict excessively.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all …"
"" Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself.""

Etymology

From over- + sorrow.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

oversorrows (present, singular) oversorrowing (participle, present) oversorrowed (participle, past) oversorrowed (past)

Derived Forms

oversorrowed oversorrowing

Questions

What does oversorrow mean?: To grieve or afflict excessively.
Where does oversorrow come from?: From over- + sorrow.

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