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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. grieve

    To mourn is to feel or express sadness or distress because of some loss, affliction, or misfortune; mourning is thought of as prolonged, grief or regret may be transient. One may grieve or mourn, regret, rue, or sorrow without a sound; he bemoans with suppressed and often inarticulate sounds of grief; he bewails with passionate utterance, whether of inarticulate cries or of spoken words. He laments in plaintive or pathetic words, as the prophet Jeremiah in his "Lamentations." One deplores with settled sorrow which may or may not find relief in words. One is made to rue an act by some misfortune resulting, or by some penalty or vengeance inflicted because of it. One regrets a slight misfortune or a hasty word; he sorrows over the death of a friend.

    Synonyms:
    bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, mourn, regret, rue, sorrow

    Antonyms:
    be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, rejoice, triumph

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. grieve

    Synonyms:
    trouble, burden, annoy, distress, bewail, wound, pain, sorrow, hurt, afflict, mourn, lament, complain, deplore

    Antonyms:
    ease, console, soothe, please, rejoice, exult, gratify, alleviate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. grieve, sorrowverb

    feel grief

    Synonyms:
    sorrow, aggrieve

  2. grieve, aggrieveverb

    cause to feel sorrow

    "his behavior grieves his mother"

    Synonyms:
    sorrow, aggrieve

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  1. grieveverb

    Synonyms:
    afflict, pain, hurt, or wound the feelings of, make sorrowful

  2. grieveverb

    Synonyms:
    sorrow, mourn, lament, bewail, feel regret

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 2 votes

  1. grieveverb

    Synonyms:
    mourn, regret, lament, rue, weep, sorrow, bewail, deplore, wound, afflict, try, distress, pain

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "grieve":

    cry, gref

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How to use grieve in a sentence?

  1. Grigori Rasputin:

    God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

  2. Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree:

    We're going to grieve together through this.

  3. Janet Cooksey:

    I used to watch the news daily and I would grieve for other mothers, other family members. Now today, I am grieving for myself. When do we get answers?

  4. President Obama:

    We all grieve when any innocent life is taken. We don't take this work lightly. And I know that each and every one of you understand the magnitude of what we do and the stakes involved and these aren't abstractions and we're not cavalier about what we do.

  5. Mayor Johnny DuPree:

    We're a community. We're family, and we're going to grieve together through this.


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