greefe

Noun

grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)

1. Suffering, hardship.
   • The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.

   Synonyms:

   difficulty, trouble, anguish, rend, distress, hardship, pain, smart, torment, torture

2. Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
   • She was worn out from so much grief.

   Synonyms:

   dejection, misery, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency, distress

3. (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
   • Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 53:4

   Synonyms:

   hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grievance, misery, ruth, sadness, undelight

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