grieve

/griv/

/griv/

Other forms: grieved; grieving; grieves

To grieve is to feel sorrow over something, especially people who have died.

The most common use of grieve has to do with death: usually there are grieving family members and grieving friends, feeling sadness over the loss of a loved one. You can also grieve over a pet who died, a job you didn't get, or a favorite pair of shoes that were ruined. Usually there's some kind of loss involved, but as long as you feel extremely sad about something that's happened, you're grieving.

Definitions of grieve

1. verb

   feel grief
   synonyms: sorrow

   types:

   mourn

   feel sadness

   compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with

   share the suffering of

   commiserate, sympathise, sympathize

   feel or express sympathy or compassion

   care

   feel concern or interest

   type of:

   suffer

   experience (emotional) pain
2. verb

   cause to feel sorrow
   “his behavior grieves his mother”

   synonyms: aggrieve, harrow

   type of:

   afflict

   cause great unhappiness for; distress