grieven

Verb

grieven (third-person singular simple present grievens, present participle grievening, simple past and past participle grievened)

1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become grievous or grief-stricken; to fill or be filled with grief
   • I find that the best train
     Is the morning express train,
     Which leaves Binghamton at 1:20,
     And gives me time enough, plenty,
     To get over the Hudson
     Before you've got your duds done
     On Saturday evening,
     So you needn't be grievening.1905, Marie Hansen Taylor, Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani, On Two Continents: Memories of Half a Century, page 83
   • Now, in empty room and evening,
     I, that grievening vision facing, […]1949, Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems, page 248

   Synonyms:

   grieve, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, bleed, lament