grief
noun
keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
griefs
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pluralof grief.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He succeeds in showing their interior world, immersing us in the tensions and pleasures, griefs and passions of their days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
The tension can be felt in private conversations and encounters — the griefs, the anxieties, the feelings of being in a media fishbowl.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
This might be dramatised fiction but the losses and griefs are very real.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
“Even in WandaVision — really all of the films I’ve gotten to do — she’s constantly straddling this line and usually her biggest emotive losses or griefs are when something’s born,” Olsen said.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2022
A happier place, for sure, than the tin-and-cement box that packaged us up with all our griefs in Kinshasa.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
