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grieving

/ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/ adjective B2
  1. Feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.
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Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 16 · B2
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 52 · B2
I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement; and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged the whole to me.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 234 · B2

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