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dirge

noun as in sad song

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Now again they are choosingA fall filled with funeral dirges.

Typically, a jazz funeral procession begins at a church or home, and musicians join the walking mourners along the route to the cemetery playing slow, sorrowful dirges.

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As he sees it, the long days of illness have turned his life into a tedious, meaningless dirge with nothing to look forward to other than its end.

The 19th century, though, was a 100-year dirge from one horrid epidemic to another.

The design team sent out a dirge of mostly camel-colored leggings, leather shorts, tunics, and jackets.

The funeral dirge for Rockefeller Republicans, blaring since several key Tea Party wins this week, has been playing for decades.

The media sounded the funeral dirge and the Democrats formed circular firing squads.

It was the dirge of the British Empire in America, “The World Turned Upside Down.”

And old Sanders again tapped in the rhythm of a dirge on his parchment-bound cranium.

Nature seemed to lie stark and stiff and dead, and that accursed craake her dirge.

She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.

It certainly looked as if a true prophet was writing that dirge!

Even the sea birds that circled around them seemed screaming a dirge.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dirge, such as: elegy, hymn, chant, coronach, cry, and jeremiad.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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