grieved

Verb

grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)

1. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
   • Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.1782, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of my Mother’s Picture”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   sadden, upset, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, pain, bring down, come down on

2. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
   • to grieve one's fate

   Synonyms:

   bewail, lament, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, beweep, condole, deplore

3. (intransitive) To experience grief.

   Synonyms:

   besorrow, regret, aggrieve, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieven, bleed

4. (archaic, transitive) To harm.

   Synonyms:

   injure, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for

5. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
   • Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the … Board of Trustees.2009, D'Amico, Rob (editor), Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14

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