Hurt vs Grieve - What's the difference?
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To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
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
Hurt is a related term of grieve.
As adjectives the difference between hurt and grieve
is that hurt is wounded, physically injured while grieve is .As a verb hurt
is to be painful.As a noun hurt
is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
References
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 .