Grieve vs Maneuver - What's the difference?
grieve | maneuver |
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
(en noun) (American spelling)
A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
(often, in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
(figurative) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
(figurative) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
:: ''The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts
As an adjective grieve
is .As a noun maneuver is
a movement, often one performed with difficulty.As a verb maneuver is
to move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.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 ----maneuver
English
Alternative forms
* manoeuvre (Commonwealth) * maneuvre, manoeuver (nonstandard) *Noun
- Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver .
- The army was on maneuvers .
- Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.