GRIEVE
grieve, sorrow
(verb) feel grief
grieve, aggrieve
(verb) cause to feel sorrow; “his behavior grieves his mother”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
(transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
(transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
(intransitive) To experience grief.
(transitive, archaic) To harm.
(transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
Etymology 2
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Anagrams
• regive
Proper noun
Grieve (plural Grieves)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Grieve is the 14178th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2118 individuals. Grieve is most common among White (94.85%) individuals.
Anagrams
• regive
Source: Wiktionary
Grieve, Greeve, n. Etym: [AS. ger. Cf. Reeve an officer.]
Definition: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving.] Etym:
[OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr.
gravis heavy. See Grief.]
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, v. i.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition