What does "grieve" mean?
Grieve: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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