grieving
pronunciation
How to pronounce grieving in British English:
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- Adjective:
- sorrowful through loss or deprivation
Word Origin
- grieving (adj.)
- mid-15c., "causing pain," present participle adjective from grieve. Meaning "feeling pain" is from 1807. Related: Grievingly.
Example
- 1. Grieving friends can still post messages on those pages .
- 2. The person grieving may struggle for longer than expected .
- 3. How can discussions with grieving parents be described as state secrets ?
- 4. It 's an end-of-life crisis , which often begins a lengthy period of grieving .
- 5. We assumed an innocent woman was guilty . We threw rocks at a grieving mother .