1 [U,C] ~ (over / at sth) a feeling of great sadness, especially when sb dies:
She was overcome with grief when her husband died. * They were able to share their common joys and griefs.
2 [C,usually sing.] something that causes great sadness:
It was a grief to them that they had no children.
3 [U] (informal) problems and worry:
He caused his parents a lot of grief.
IDIOMS
come to grief (informal)
1 to end in total failure:
All his schemes for making money seem to come to grief.
2 to be harmed in an accident:
Several pedestrians came to grief on the icy pavement.
give sb grief (about / over sth) (informal) to be annoyed with sb and criticize their behaviour
good grief! (informal) used to express surprise or shock:
Good grief! What a mess!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grief is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grief a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grief is tagged as noun.
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