grieve
see also: Grieve
Pronunciation Verb
Grieve
Proper noun
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see also: Grieve
Pronunciation Verb
grieve (grieves, present participle grieving; past and past participle grieved)
- (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.
- Bible, Eph. iv. 30
- (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one's fate
- (intransitive) To experience grief.
- (transitive, archaic) To harm.
- (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.
- 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:
- 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)
- (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
- (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 ↗:
Grieve
Proper noun
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