Definition of grieve
grieved
;grieving
griever
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Examples of grieve in a Sentence
It grieves me to see my brother struggling like this.
Her decision to live overseas grieved her mother.
People need time to grieve after the death of a family member.
The children are still grieving the death of their mother.
Recent Examples of grieve from the Web
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Besides, couldn’t two different people grieve differently and both still be considered normal?
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Till’s grieving mother, Mamie Till Mobley, who insisted her son’s remains be returned to Chicago after his lynching in Money, Mississippi and drowning in the Tallahatchie River.
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Jack Antonoff, lead singer of the Bleachers and Lena Dunham's boyfriend, is still grieving his sister 15 years after her death.
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J.K. Simmons stars as a grieving widower alongside Julie Delpy and Josh Wiggins in Kurt Voelker’s tightly focused feature.
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In the absence of justice, perhaps progress is simply returning to black families their right to grieve in peace.
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Most Republican lawmakers are perfectly comfortable betraying their promises to grieving communities for the sake of financing a capital gains tax cut for the rich.
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Twenty years later, the 32-year-old royal still grieves his mom's passing, and understandably so.
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Bunny Lehton hasn't let fear force her out of her home, but continues to grieve along with her husband, Bob, and her two sons - Amy's older brothers, Mark and Ryan.
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Origin and Etymology of grieve
Middle English greven, from Anglo-French grever, from Latin gravare to burden, from gravis heavy, grave; akin to Greek barys heavy, Sanskrit guru
GRIEVE Defined for English Language Learners
grieve
playDefinition of grieve for English Language Learners
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: to cause (someone) to feel sad or unhappy
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: to feel or show grief or sadness
GRIEVE Defined for Kids
grieve
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grieved
;grieving
1 : to feel or show grief a grieving widow
2 : to cause grief to Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins … — L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Medical Dictionary
grieve
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grieved
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transitive verb
: to feel or show grief over grieving the death of her sonintransitive verb
: to feel grief Each member of a family is likely to grieve differently, creating great potential for conflict.—Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1997
griever
noun Antidepressants do not ease the longing for the deceased that grievers feel.—Virginia Hughes, Scientific American, June 2011Law Dictionary
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Legal Definition of grieve
grieved
grieving
transitive verb
intransitive verb
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