engrieve

Verb

engrieve (third-person singular simple present engrieves, present participle engrieving, simple past and past participle engrieved)

1. (archaic, transitive) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
   • If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.1563, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs: the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church
   • Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.1834, Francis Bacon, edited by Basil Montagu, The Works Of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

   Synonyms:

   distress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on

2. (archaic, intransitive) To grieve.
   • Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   grieven, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, erme, gloom, grieve, bleed