grieve, sorrow
(verb) feel grief
grieve, aggrieve
(verb) cause to feel sorrow; “his behavior grieves his mother”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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).
grieve (plural grieves)
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
• regive
Grieve (plural Grieves)
A surname.
• 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.
• 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
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
