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 conversation ranges from what people think constitutes “a good death” to griefs they carry: old and new, individual and collective.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 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
“It was the full and terrible truth, alas,” Horatio assures me, and I see by his eyes that his own griefs have not died, but only diminished.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
