Definition of Grieve

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Grieve

Alt. of Greeve

To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

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

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.

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Grieve Quotations

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. Nixon

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz

Grieve Translations

grieve in Dutch is verdriet doen, bedroeven, beproeven
grieve in French is chagriner, affliger, affligeons, affligent
grieve in Italian is crucciare
grieve in Latin is doleo
grieve in Portuguese is aflija-se
grieve in Spanish is apenar

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