• (RP, America) IPA: /ɡɹiːv/

grieve (grieves, present participle grieving; past and past participle grieved)

1. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
   • Bible, Eph. iv. 30

     Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

   • The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.

2. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

   to grieve one's fate

3. (intransitive) To experience grief.
4. (transitive, archaic) To harm.
5. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
   • 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:

     Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.

• grievance
• grievous
• grief

• French: attrister, chagriner
• Italian: affliggere
• Portuguese: afligir

• French: avoir du chagrin
• Italian: affliggersi
• Portuguese: sofrer por
• Russian: горева́ть
• Spanish: contristar

• French: affliger
• German: trauern
• Russian: горева́ть
• Spanish: contristarse

grieve (plural grieves)

1. (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
2. (chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
   • 1815 February 23, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644 ↗:

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