Grieve

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  • 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. To hurt or harm.
  • intransitive verb. To experience or express grief.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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, or over.
  • noun. 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. To sorrow over.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A governor of a town or province.
  • noun. A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
  • verb. To cause sorrow or distress.
  • verb. To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
  • verb. To experience grief.
  • verb. To harm.
  • verb. To submit or file a grievance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to feel sorrow
  • verb. feel grief
  • Word Usage
    "The only thing that the fossil fuel industries grieve is a decline in profits."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    gladden  please  
    Equivalent
    greeve  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    afflict  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eve  Kleve  Neave  Rajiv  Steve  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ache  affect  afflict  afflict  affront  
    verb-form