1 ~ (for / over sb/sth) to feel very sad, especially because sb has died:
[V] They are still grieving for their dead child. * grieving relatives * [VN] She grieved the death of her husband.
2 (formal) to make you feel very sad:
[VNthat] It grieved him that he could do nothing to help her. * [VN] Their lack of interest grieved her. * [VNtoinf] It grieved her to leave.
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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 grieve is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grieve a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grieve is tagged as verb.
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