grief
/ɡɹiːf/ verb C2- To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.
He/she/it griefs · Past griefed · Past participle griefed · -ing form griefing
Verb forms
- Base form
- grief
- He/she/it
- griefs
- Past
- griefed
- Past participle
- griefed
- -ing form
- griefing
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Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
“Ah, Danglars!” whispered Caderousse, “you have deceived me—the trick you spoke of last night has been played; but I cannot suffer a poor old man or an innocent girl to die of grief through your fault.
A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there.
“It is a double grief to me,” he exclaimed, “that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my own wings.”
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