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grief

//ɡɹiːf//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for grief

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
griefs

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
grief
past (v2)
griefed
past participle (v3)
griefed
present participle
griefing
3rd person singular
griefs

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Suffering, hardship.

    • The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.

  2. 2.Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

    • She was worn out from so much grief.
    • The betrayal caused Jeff grief.

  3. 3.A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4360

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”).

Doublet of grave.

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