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grieve

/ɡɹiːv/verb1 syllable

Grieve means: feel grief.

Synonyms for grieve17

verb, as in feel grief

sorrow

verb, as in cause to feel sorrow

aggrieve

also used for grieve

sadden, upset, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, pain, bring down, bewail, lament, afterthink, becry, bemoan, bemourn, beweep

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What does grieve mean?2

verb

1

feel grief

2

cause to feel sorrow“his behavior grieves his mother”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with grieve?13

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Grieve in a sentence

  • What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.DJ_Saidez
  • She was clothed in black, like she was ready to grieve someone.Cabo
  • I advised him not to grieve over the past.unknown
  • We cannot grieve over his death too deeply.unknown
  • She did nothing but grieve over her husband's death.Eldad
  • There's no right or wrong way to grieve.patgfisher
  • There's more than one right way to grieve.rul
  • There isn't just one right way to grieve.rul

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Forms of grieve

as a verb

past tense
grieved
present participle
grieving
third-person singular
grieves
past participle
grieved