grieve
verb (used without object)
to feel grief or great sorrow.
grieves
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present tense formof grieve (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"Seattle grieves with you, and we will stand with you in the difficult days ahead."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He said the whole town "still grieves greatly".
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
“Everyone who grieves has questions,” McKinnon said, “but she had no answers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
“Madam, it grieves me to go,” he said.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
