The meaning of GRIEVE is to cause to suffer : distress. How to use grieve in a sentence.
GRIEVE definition: 1. to feel or express great sadness, especially when someone dies: 2. to make you feel sad and…. Learn more.
Definition of grieve verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you grieve over something, especially someone's death, you feel very sad about it. He's grieving over his dead wife and son. [VERB preposition] I didn't have any time to grieve. [VERB] Margery's grieving family battled to come to terms with their loss. [VERB -ing]
These verbs mean to feel, show, or express grief, sadness, or regret: grieved over her father's death; lamenting about the decline in academic standards; mourns for lost hopes; sorrowed for a lost friend.
To grieve is to feel or express intense grief —mental or emotional suffering or distress caused by loss or regret. Grieve often means the same thing as mourn. It’s especially used in the context of someone who is mourning the death of a loved one.
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved) (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
Grieve is the stronger word, implying deep mental suffering often endured alone and in silence but revealed by one's aspect: to grieve over the loss (or death) of a friend.
To grieve is to feel sorrow over something, especially people who have died. The most common use of grieve has to do with death: usually there are grieving family members and grieving friends, feeling sadness over the loss of a loved one.