Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause to be sorrowful; distress.
- intransitive verb To mourn or sorrow for.
- intransitive verb To file an official or formal grievance on account of (an actual or perceived injustice).
- intransitive verb Archaic To hurt or harm.
- intransitive verb To experience or express grief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inflict mental pain or distress upon; cause to suffer; make sorrowful; afflict; aggrieve.
- To vex; harass; oppress.
- To sorrow over; deplore; lament.
- To feel grief; be in mental distress; sorrow; mourn: usually followed by at, for, about, or over.
- Synonyms Mourn, etc. See lament, v. i.
- noun Another spelling of
greeve .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by
at ,for , orover . - noun Scot. A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.
- transitive verb To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.
- transitive verb rare To sorrow over.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
governor of atown orprovince . - noun A
manager orsteward , e.g. of afarm . - verb transitive To cause
sorrow ordistress . - verb transitive To feel very
sad about; tomourn ; tosorrow for. - verb intransitive To experience
grief . - verb transitive, archaic To
harm . - verb transitive To submit or
file a grievance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to feel sorrow
- verb feel grief
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The only thing that the fossil fuel industries grieve is a decline in profits.
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To grieve is to be delighted with the snapshot prints and impulsively to order duplicates for Mother, only to remember that she died six months previously…and to say to the clerk, “Never mind.”
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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To grieve is to take two coffee cups from the cupboard in the morning, only to remember she left last month…and to have to put one cup back….
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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To grieve is to take two coffee cups from the cupboard in the morning, only to remember she left last month…and to have to put one cup back….
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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To grieve is to be delighted with the snapshot prints and impulsively to order duplicates for Mother, only to remember that she died six months previously…and to say to the clerk, “Never mind.”
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007
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There are a lot of uncomfortable moments of people doing their best not to grieve, which is more disturbing than the high wails of most movie scripts.
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White women were believed to "grieve" more than Black women forced into concubinage, raped, or enslaved in prostitution.
Melissa Ditmore: Today's Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Reflect Historical Racism and Sexism Melissa Ditmore 2011
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White women were believed to "grieve" more than Black women forced into concubinage, raped, or enslaved in prostitution.
Melissa Ditmore: Today's Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Reflect Historical Racism and Sexism Melissa Ditmore 2011
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It was to address the psychological trauma, then newly labeled as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD], that haunted him and to help him "grieve" that much of his life had been blown away along with his face.
Bryant Welch: Vets with PTSD: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again--Tell Him to 'Think Positively 2009
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Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life.
Time Tripping 2008
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