GRIEVE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper,

2.
v.

To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]

3.
v.

To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. Do not you grieve at this. Shak.

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