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  • grieve for — mourn for, lament, bewail, bemoan, weep for …   English contemporary dictionary

  • grieve — grieve, mourn, sorrow mean to feel or express one s sorrow or grief. Grieve implies actual mental suffering, whether it is shown outwardly or not; the term often also connotes the concentration of one s mind on one s loss, trouble, or cause of… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • grieve — v. 1) to grieve deeply 2) (D; intr.) to grieve for, over 3) (R) it grieved me (to learn) that she had been severely injured * * * [griːv] over (D; intr.) to grieve for (R) it grieved me (to learn) that she had been severely injured to grieve… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • grieve — [gri:v] v [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: grever, from Latin gravare to load heavily , from gravis; GRAVE1] 1.) [I and T] to feel extremely sad, especially because someone you love has died grieve over/for ▪ He died, and every day since… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Grieve — Grieve, v. i. 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. [1913 Webster] Do not you grieve at this. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • grieve — [ griv ] verb 1. ) intransitive or transitive to feel extremely sad because someone has died: I never had time to grieve properly. He s still grieving for his wife. Millions of people are grieving over his death. 2. ) transitive FORMAL to upset… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • grieve — grievedly /gree vid lee, greevd /, adv. griever, n. grievingly, adv. /greev/, v., grieved, grieving. v.i. 1. to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years. v.t. 2. to distress mentally; cause to feel grief… …   Universalium

  • grieve — UK [ɡriːv] / US [ɡrɪv] verb Word forms grieve : present tense I/you/we/they grieve he/she/it grieves present participle grieving past tense grieved past participle grieved 1) [intransitive/transitive] to feel extremely sad because someone has… …   English dictionary

  • grieve — verb ADVERB ▪ deeply ▪ She had grieved deeply for her father. ▪ privately, silently ▪ still PREPOSITION ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • Grieve — Recorded in several spellings including: Greave, Greeve, Grieve, Greaves, Greeves, and Greves, this is an English surname. It is either locational from the former hamlet of Greaves in the parish of Preston, Lancashire, or it is topographical from …   Surnames reference

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