grieve

Word family

grieve /ɡriːv/ verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SAD/UNHAPPY to feel extremely sad, especially because someone you love has died 〔尤指因所爱之人去世而〕感到悲痛

grieve over/for

He died, and every day since then I have grieved for him.

他死了，从此我没有一天不在悲痛。

People need time to grieve after the death of a loved one.

人们在所爱之人去世后会有一段悲伤期。

She grieved the loss of her only son.

她因为失去唯一的儿子而悲痛。

2 [transitiveT]SAD/UNHAPPY if something grieves you, it makes you feel very unhappy 使伤心 SYN upset

My aunt, it grieves me to say, gets things confused.

我的姑妈，说起来我很难过，她有点颠三倒四的。

Examples from the Corpus

grieve• Yet they are not supposed to grieve.• It is a terrible tragedy for this small community. Everyone here is grieving.• Once again I was slow to grieve.• It's healthy to take time to grieve after the death of a loved one.• To unburden themselves of arranging and directing these tasks, grieving families turn to funeral directors.• Millet continued to grieve for his wife for many years after her death.• He and I still grieve for Langford, but our search for him has changed.• If the women of the tyrant nations do not grieve for the crimes of those nations, who will?• Or you may be grieving for your partner or client.• She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time.• People must be allowed to grieve the loss of a relative for as long as they need to.

grieve over/for• I could hardly say I was up here grieving over a junior at Radcliffe.• Well, they grieve; we grieve for a while and then get on with our lives.• I felt like I would never stop grieving over my dead brother.• If the women of the tyrant nations do not grieve for the crimes of those nations, who will?• He grieved for what was lost and what had never come to be.• Or you may be grieving for your partner or client.

it grieves• Parents love each child, and it grieves them to witness the hitting, hurting and hateful things said to each other.

Origin grieve

(1200-1300) Old French grever, from Latin gravare “to load heavily”, from gravis; → GRAVE1

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