grieve Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb feel grief
    sorrow.
  2. verb cause to feel sorrow
    aggrieve.
    • his behavior grieves his mother

WordNet

Grieve, Greeve noun (Also<
  • Grieve
  • Greeve
)
Etymology
AS. gerfa. Cf. Reeve an officer.
Definitions
  1. A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Scot.
    Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
Grieve transitive verb
Etymology
OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Grieved ; present participle & verbal noun Grieving
Definitions
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try.
    Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30.
    The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper,
  2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. R.
Grieve intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
    Do not you grieve at this. Shak.

Webster 1913