Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To cause someone to feel deep sorrow or distress; to afflict with grief.
2. Verb (intransitive):
   • To feel or express deep sorrow, especially because of someone's death or a loss.

Usage

• As a transitive verb, "grieve" takes a direct object (the person who is made to feel sorrow).
• As an intransitive verb, "grieve" is often followed by a preposition like for, over, or at to indicate the cause of the sorrow.

Examples

• Transitive verb (to cause sorrow):
  • His cruel words grieved his mother deeply.
  • It grieves me to see the city in such a state of decay.
• Intransitive verb (to feel sorrow):
  • She is still grieving for her lost friend.
  • The nation grieved over the tragic accident.

Advanced Usage

• "To grieve for": To mourn or feel sorrow about a specific person or thing that has been lost.
  • He took a long time to grieve for his wife.
• "To grieve over": To feel deep sorrow regarding a specific event or situation.
  • There's no point in grieving over spilled milk. (This is a variation on the idiom "don't cry over spilled milk.")

Variants and Related Words

• Grievance (n): A real or imagined cause for complaint or protest.
  • The workers presented a list of their grievances to management.
• Grievous (adj): Very severe or serious; causing great pain or suffering.
  • He suffered a grievous injury in the battle.

Synonyms

• Transitive (to cause sorrow): Sadden, distress, hurt, pain, afflict.
• Intransitive (to feel sorrow): Mourn, lament, sorrow, weep, ache.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

(Note: "Grieve" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The prepositions "for," "over," and "at" are used as described in the intransitive usage.)

Related Idioms

• "Grieve one's heart out": To grieve very intensely and for a long time.
  • After her dog died, she grieved her heart out for weeks.

Verb

1. cause to feel sorrow
   • his behavior grieves his mother
2. feel grief