Meaning of GRIEVE
Pronunciation: | | greev
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- [v] feel grief; eat one's heart out
- [v] break the heart of; cause to feel sorrow
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| Synonyms: | | aggrieve, sorrow |
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| See Also: | | afflict, compassionate, condole with, feel for, grieve, mourn, pity, suffer, sympathize with | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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