grieves
Meaning of grieves
- feel intense sorrow.
she grieved for her father
Middle English (also in the sense ‘harm, oppress’): from Old French grever ‘burden, encumber’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’ (see grave2).
plural noun
an overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.
late 15th century: related to reeve1.
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Hyphenation of grieves
grieves
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- grieves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
grieves synonyms
Meaning feel or show sorrow for the death of (someone), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes:
Meaning express passionate grief about:
Meaning feel or display deep distress:
Meaning shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow:
Meaning cry noisily, making loud, convulsive gasps:
Meaning shed tears:
Meaning having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm:
Meaning experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant):
Meaning feel intense sadness or compassion:
grieves antonyms
Meaning feel or show great joy or delight:
Anagrams of grieves
Words that rhyme with grieves
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