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Definition of "lorn" []

  • Bereft; forlorn. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lorn" in a sentence
  • "Dickens made Mrs. Gummidge very funny; but the Gummidge of real life is not merely a limp, "lorn" creature -- she is a woman who began by being unhealthily vain, and ends by being venomously malignant."
  • "And thou, lorn Wisdom's child, where'er thou art —"
  • "Perhaps purchasing a gas or electric heater may deter the love lorn bucks in his area, if he doesn't take up huntin '."