grieve
pronunciation
How to pronounce grieve in British English:
UK [ɡriːv]
How to pronounce grieve in American English:
US [ɡriːv]
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- Verb:
- feel grief; eat one's heart out
- break the heart of; cause to feel sorrow
Word Origin
- grieve (v.)
- c. 1200, transitive, "to make worried or depressed; to make angry, enrage;" also "to be physically painful, cause discomfort;" c. 1300 as "cause grief to, disappoint, be a cause of sorrow;" also "injure, harass, oppress," from tonic stem of Old French grever "to burden, oppress, aggravate" (see grief). Intransitive sense of "be sorry, lament" is from c. 1400. Related: Grieved; grieving.
Example
- 1. Allow the person to grieve in their own way .
- 2. The tears happen . Endure , grieve , and move on . The only person , who is with us our entire life , is ourselves ( and god ) . Be alive while you are alive .
- 3. The family grieves . All who knew the person grieve .
- 4. Warren and I have struggled with our grief , and the differences in how we grieve , from the first day .
- 5. I don 't know what he does there but I respected that as his time to grieve and remember .