Definitions for grief

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grief grief

Spelling: [greef]

IPA: /grif/

Grief is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in grief (efgir).

Definitions for grief

noun

1. keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
2. a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow.

Idioms

1. come to grief, to suffer disappointment, misfortune, or other trouble; fail:
2. good grief, (used as an exclamation of dismay, surprise, or relief):

Origin of grief

1175-1225; Middle English gref, grief Anglo-French gref; see grieve

Examples for grief

It warps them and yet makes them, and horrifies them both as it does so—just as grief does.

No wonder Bassanio exaggerates his grief and the sacrifice he would be prepared to make.

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.

What consternation and grief there would be throughout the world!

And she confides her grief to the world with such charming discretion.

Still there was that in them which respected the mother's grief; they tried to shield her.

Amelia says some truly terrible things to Sam, supposedly inhabited by the Babadook but really consumed in grief.

In these hours of grief, the soul of him put out its strength.

Energy is sucked from them, the world around them becomes impossible—the Babadook of grief and loss exerts its force everywhere.

The grief in this house is extreme of course; this is a horror movie, after all.