GRIEVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grieve mean? 

• GRIEVE (verb)
  The verb GRIEVE has 2 senses:

1. feel grief

2. cause to feel sorrow

  Familiarity information: GRIEVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIEVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they grieve    ... he / she / it grieves   
Past simple: grieved   
Past participle: grieved   
-ing form: grieving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel grief

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

grieve; sorrow

Hypernyms (to "grieve" is one way to...):

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grieve"):

mourn (feel sadness)

compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with (share the suffering of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue grieve

Derivation:

griever (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to feel sorrow

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

aggrieve; grieve

Context example:

his behavior grieves his mother

Hypernyms (to "grieve" is one way to...):

afflict (cause great unhappiness for; distress)

Cause:

grieve; sorrow (feel grief)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will grieve him

 Context examples 

Don't grieve and fret when I am gone, or think that you can be idle and comfort yourselves by being idle and trying to forget.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"You utterly misinterpret my words," I said, at once seizing his hand: "I have no intention to grieve or pain you—indeed, I have not."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was roused from my amazement, and concern for her—I am sure, for her—by her falling on my neck, for a moment, and crying that she only grieved for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It did not surprise, but it grieved Anne to observe that Elizabeth would not know him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She is grieved to lose Lucy as her very own, but she is rejoiced that she is soon to have some one to protect her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When you grieve, it's part of the normal process of reacting to a loss.

(Bereavement, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Then she bitterly grieved for the pride and folly which had brought her so low.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I’ll not go if it is to grieve you,” I cried.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)