grieve
/ɡɹiːv/ verb B2- To cause sorrow or distress to.
- To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. · to grieve one's fate
- To experience grief.
- To submit or file a grievance (about).
He/she/it grieves · Past grieved · Past participle grieved · -ing form grieving
Verb forms
- Base form
- grieve
- He/she/it
- grieves
- Past
- grieved
- Past participle
- grieved
- -ing form
- grieving
From the library
Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
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.
Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake.
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
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