to grieve
- verb
- /ɡriːv/
- It is important to grieve when you lose someone close to you.
- grieve the loss
- the grieving process
- grieving parents
Have you been able to grieve and process it?
- Have you been able to grieve and process it?
- But you have to grieve the parent you have.
- There is no right way to grieve, and grief takes time.
- And I'm trying to grieve as I go back to work.
- I just plowed through him and I didn't grieve and I haven't.
- But their big thing is everyone grieves at the same level.
- So giving him the space to grieve is super important.
- And therefore, people grieve for months, years, decades.
- And and I think when someone's grieving, you need to be there for them.
- But what she said was when we grieve, we don't experience one loss.
- And I grieve that tragedy very much.
- And there's these support groups for women that grieve over families that they never had.
Examples
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It is our honour and privilege to guard them while they grieve.
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How will I know when I have finished grieving you or this place?
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But the truth is those who grieve well live well.
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Have you been able to grieve and process it?
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And therefore, people grieve for months, years, decades.
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Just give yourself some time to grieve.
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Due to AIDS, there is barely time to grieve before another funeral.
Academic text (2006) -
It would be best if the family was able to grieve in private.
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But in the same breath you are grieving what you had hoped for.
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For these participants, it was imperative that each partner be prepared for differences in grieving styles.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
To let tears fall because you feel sad or hurt
To cry and let tears fall because you feel sad or have strong feelings
Feel or show deep sadness after someone dies
To feel deep sadness after a loss
To make a loud, sad cry for someone who has died
To show deep sadness and regret about something
Antonyms
How Sad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grieve comes from the same old Latin root gravare, meaning 'to make heavy', and it is like the word grave for serious feeling. So when people grieve they feel 'heavy' inside because of a loss.