grief
keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.
Digital Technology.
(in an online video game) to behave in an unsportsmanlike way or take pleasure in antagonizing (other players): I reported the jerk who griefed me yesterday—I hope they ban his account.
to exploit a glitch or execute an online prank that ruins a website or other online experience for (users): Posting flashing content to an epilepsy site is taking griefing to a malicious and dangerous extreme.
Idioms about grief
come to grief, to suffer disappointment, misfortune, or other trouble; fail: Their marriage came to grief after only two years.
good grief, (used as an exclamation of dismay, surprise, or relief): Good grief, it's started to rain again!
Origin of grief
1synonym study For grief
Other words for grief
Opposites for grief
Other words from grief
- griefless, adjective
- grief·less·ness, noun
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How to use grief in a sentence
But is not this existence continually troubled by griefs, fears, and often cruel and undeserved maladies.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierHome, where nothing comes to distract me from my gnawing griefs and almost intolerable thoughts.
The Circular Study | Anna Katharine GreenThe only griefs in our own lives to which we could never reconcile ourselves are those which might have been averted.
The Autobiography of a Play | Bronson HowardHere were two new griefs hurling themselves in over the wires all in the same quarter-hour, besides the one I had up my sleeve.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeIt has been thought a dangerous thing in any State to stop up the vent of griefs.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton Ryerson
British Dictionary definitions for grief
/ (ɡriːf) /
deep or intense sorrow or distress, esp at the death of someone
something that causes keen distress or suffering
informal trouble or annoyance: people were giving me grief for leaving ten minutes early
come to grief informal to end unsuccessfully or disastrously
tune someone grief See tune (def. 17)
Origin of grief
1Derived forms of grief
- griefless, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with grief
see come to grief; good grief.
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