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GRIEVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel grief

Synonyms:

grieve; sorrow

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "grieve" is one way to...):

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grieve"):

mourn (feel sadness)

compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with (share the suffering of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue grieve

Derivation:

griever (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to feel sorrow

Example:

his behavior grieves his mother

Synonyms:

aggrieve; grieve

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "grieve" is one way to...):

afflict (cause great unhappiness for; distress)

Cause:

grieve; sorrow (feel grief)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will grieve him

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Meanwhile it grieves me that as I have already given my purse to a beggar up the road I—”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I didn’t grieve over her marriage.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Poor soul! cried Mrs. Jennings, as soon as she was gone, how it grieves me to see her!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It would have grieved me to lose your acquaintance, which must have been the consequence of your marrying Mr. Martin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Matt regarded his employer with grieved disapproval.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was a fool to let her go on biding with us—a besotted fool—but I never said a word to Mary, for I knew it would grieve her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)