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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa.
Cf {Reeve} an officer.]
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work a reeve; a
manorial bailiff. [Scot.]
Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir
W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grieved}; p. pr
& vb n. {Grieving}.] [OE. greven, OF grever, fr L. gravare
to burden, oppress, fr gravis heavy. See {Grief.}]
1. To occasion grief to to wound the sensibilities of to
make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt;
to try
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. --Eph. iv 30.
The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
--Cowper,
2. To sorrow over as to grieve one's fate. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grieve \Grieve\, v. i.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
grieve
v 1: feel grief; eat one's heart out [syn: {sorrow}]
2: break the heart of cause to feel sorrow [syn: {aggrieve}]
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