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Grief or Grieve - What's the difference?

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Grieve is a related term of grief.



As nouns the difference between grief and grieve

is that grief is suffering, hardship while grieve is a governor of a town or province.

As verbs the difference between grief and grieve

is that grief is 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 grieve is to cause sorrow or distress to.

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).

    grieve

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the conjugated forms of (etyl) .

    Verb

    (griev)
  • To cause sorrow or distress to.
  • * Bible, Eph. iv. 30
  • Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
  • * Cowper
  • The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
  • To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
  • to grieve one's fate
  • To experience grief.
  • (archaic) To harm.
  • To submit or file a grievance.
  • * 2009 D'Amico, Rob , Editor, Texas Teacher , published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
  • Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
    Derived terms
    * grieved * griever * grievingly

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve .
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

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