单词 | grieve |
释义 | grieve (once / 317 pages) v 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. WORD FAMILYgrieve: grieved, griever, grieves, grieving+/griever: grievers/grieving: grievingly USAGE EXAMPLESFrancis lamented that so many people in the world were left grieving because of terrorism. Time(Jan 01, 2017) She was 39 years old, grieving for her own father. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) Players aren’t celebrating or grieving but simply overcome with the emotion of spending three hours in this nation’s most regal football game. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v feel grief Syn|Hypo|Hyper sorrow mourn feel sadness compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize withshare the suffering of commiserate, sympathise, sympathizeto feel or express sympathy or compassion carefeel concern or interest suffer experience (emotional) pain 2v cause to feel sorrow his behavior grieves his mother Syn|Hyper aggrieve afflict cause great unhappiness for; distress |
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