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Grieve

Grieve Meaning & Definition
Grieve Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Grieve?

[v] feel grief; eat one's heart out
[v] break the heart of; cause to feel sorrow

Synonyms | Synonyms for Grieve: aggrieve | sorrow

Related Terms | Find terms related to Grieve: ache | affect | afflict | affront | aggrieve | agonize | anguish | barb the dart | bear | bemoan | bewail | bleed | break down | bring to tears | brood over | bruise | complain | constrain | crush | cry | cut | cut up | deplore | desolate | dirge | discomfort | dismay | distress | draw tears | elegize | embitter | endure | fret | give offense | give sorrow words | give umbrage | hurt | hurt the feelings | injure | inundate | keen | knell | lament | melt | melt the heart | moan | mope | mourn | move | offend | oppress | outrage | overwhelm | pain | pierce | pine | pine away | prick | prostrate | reach | regret | repine | rue | sadden | shed tears | sigh | sing the blues | soften | sorrow | stab | sting | suffer | take on | torment | touch | twist the knife | wail | weep | weep over | wound

See Also | afflict | compassionate | condole with | feel for | grieve | mourn | pity | suffer | sympathize with

Grieve In Webster's Dictionary

\Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. {Reeve} an officer.] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir W. Scott.
\Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grieved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grieving}.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See {Grief.}] 1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. --Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. --Cowper, 2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]
\Grieve\, v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. Do not you grieve at this. --Shak.

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