grieve
Plural: grieves
Verb
Verb Forms: grieved, grieving, grieves
- To feel intense sorrow or distress.
- feel grief
- cause to feel sorrow
- "his behavior grieves his mother"
- To cause sorrow or distress to.
- To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- To experience grief.
- To harm.
- To submit or file a grievance (about).
Noun
- A governor of a town or province.
- A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Examples
- He would grieve the loss of his high-scoring ’Q’ tile.
- to grieve one's fate
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravō, gravāre, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
For the meaning development compare Russian тяготи́ть (tjagotítʹ, “to be a burden (on), to oppress”), Russian тужи́ть (tužítʹ, “to experience grief”), related to тяжёлый (tjažólyj, “heavy, grave”), тя́жкий (tjážkij).
Synonyms
aggrieve, sorrow, abuse, annoy, attrist, begloom, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bewound, bleed, bring down, condole, contristate, damage, damnify, dash, deject, deplore, depress, dere, desolate, dispirit, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, engrieve, erme, forset, forwork, get down, gloom, grieve, grieven, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, keen, lament, maul, mean, misdo, moan, mourn, oppress, pine, put someone in hospital, regret, rue, sadden, sadden up, scaith, scathe, sigh, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset, vulnerate, wail, wayment, wet, wound, yearn
Scrabble Score: 10
grieve: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrieve: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grieve: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary