transitive. With impersonal subject and with the person (in early use dative or accusative) as object. To affect with sorrow or regret; to…

To affect with grief or deep sorrow. †Formerly, in wider sense: to vex, trouble, or oppress mentally; to cause pain, anxiety, or vexation to; to…

transitive. To cause grief or sorrow to; to grieve, distress. Also intransitive.

transitive. To cause to lament; to sadden or grieve. Obsolete.

transitive. To make sad or sorrowful; to sadden, grieve.

(The principal use.) transitive. To cause to feel sorrow; to make unhappy. Also: to give a sad appearance to.

transitive. To make sorrowful; to sadden. Now rare.

transitive. To render sorrowful; to annoy, distress.

= contrist, v.

transitive. To affect with sadness, to sadden.

To grieve. Obsolete.

transitive. To plunge in grief.