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Grieve   /griv/   Listen
verb
Grieve  v. t.  (past & past part. grieved; pres. part. grieving)  
1.
To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God." "The maidens grieved themselves at my concern."
2.
To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. (R.)


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. "Do not you grieve at this."


noun
Greeve, Grieve  n.  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. (Scot.) "Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve."





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"Grieve" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the little girl and her nurse were never separated except when the nurse would go home to see her husband and her son, who was a handsome boy about fourteen years old. The little girl used to grieve so when her nurse left her that on one occasion, when the woman was going home for only an hour or so, she carried the child with her. There the little girl saw the handsome son of her nurse, and they were both very much ...
— Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country • Joel Chandler Harris
... of the Thames begins to lose its dignity and beauty, and to be of like effect with the other, which is the Southwark side, and like all the American river-sides that I remember. Grimy business piles, sagging sheds, and frowsy wharves and docks grieve the eye, which the shipping in the stream does little to console. That is mostly of dingy tramp-steamers, or inferior Dutch liners, clumsy barges, and here and there a stately brig or shapely schooner; but it gathers nowhere into the forest of masts and chimneys that ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells
... as I grieve to chronicle the fact, That selfsame truant known as "Cadet Grey" Was the young hero of our moral tract, Shorn of his twofold names on entrance-day. "Winthrop" and "Adams" dropped in that one act ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... the village walls, and in the deep And sacred hush of woods, where fairies sleep, Calm Nature soothes my senses, and I live In realms that only creatures can conceive, Who with their holy guardian spirits keep Firm faith, and into loving arms I creep, And mundane cares no more my spirit grieve. ...
— Edward MacDowell • Elizabeth Fry Page
... how he will grieve for me!" she added in a commiserating tone, as she watched the receding scrap of paper. "You might have allowed me that one bit of consolation, I ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth


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