Grieve vs Dere - What's the difference?
grieve | dere |
To cause sorrow or distress to.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 30
* Cowper
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
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:
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
* Sir Walter Scott
To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
* c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
* :
To annoy, trouble, grieve.
As verbs the difference between grieve and dere
is that grieve is to cause sorrow or distress to while dere is to hurt; harm; injure; wound.As nouns the difference between grieve and dere
is that grieve is (obsolete) a governor of a town or province while dere is hurt; harm; injury.grieve
English
Etymology 1
From the conjugated forms of (etyl) .Verb
(griev)- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
- to grieve one's fate
- 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 * grievinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve .
Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----dere
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dere, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) deren, derien, from (etyl) .Verb
(der)- And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere .
- Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /