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Grief vs Engrieve - What's the difference?

grief | engrieve |

As verbs the difference between grief and engrieve

is that grief is (online gaming) to deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially , to do this as one’s primary activity in the game while engrieve is (archaic|transitive) to cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

As a noun grief

is suffering, hardship.

grief

English

(wikipedia grief)

Noun

  • Suffering, hardship.
  • Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
    • She was worn out from so much grief .
    The betrayal caused Jeff grief .
  • (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
    • Surely, he hath borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows. -Isaiah 53:4

    Derived terms

    * give someone grief

    Verb

    (en verb) (Griefer)
  • (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially , to do this as one’s primary activity in the game.

    • Usage notes

    * This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle (griefing) and the derived noun (griefer).

    Related terms

    * grievance * grieve * grievous

    External links

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    engrieve

    English

    Verb

    (engriev)
  • (archaic) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
  • * 1563 , , Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church ,
    • If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.
  • * 1834 , , Basil Montagu (editor), The Works Of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England ,
    • Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve , either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.
  • * 1998', Annabel M. Patterson (editor), ''The trial of '', ' 1577 ),
    • I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.