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 14178^th 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