grief
/ɡɹiːf/ nom B2En français : douleur, peine
- Suffering, hardship. · The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. · She was worn out from so much grief.· The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
- A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
Pluriel griefs
Dans la bibliothèque
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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