Word Finder - grief

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Suffering, hardship.

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Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

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She was worn out from so much grief.

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Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.

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To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game.

To the grief of his mother he left the Roman church.

She exhibited great grief at his death.

The grief was so strong that it became a nauseating pain.

Grief made people say cruel things, sometimes.

Grief had overwhelmed her so completely, it was like a bad dream she could not shake off.

This may be so; but it would be strange if a writer who could say," in much wisdom is much grief,"should deliberately laud wisdom.

He could not bear to see her grief.

When Roland heard of his wife's condemnation, he wandered some miles from his refuge in Rouen; maddened by despair and grief, he wrote a few words expressive of his horror at those massacres which could only be inspired by the enemies of France, protesting that "from the moment when I learned that they had murdered my wife I would no longer remain in a world stained with enemies."

Achilles is a typical Greek hero; handsome, brave, celebrated for his fleetness of foot, prone to excess of wrath and grief, at the same time he is compassionate, hospitable, full of affection for his mother and respect for the gods.

Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid their grief in their own way.

The grief in her voice rested heavy on the trio.

Nehemiah, the cup-bearer of Artaxerxes at Susa, plunged in grief at the news of the desolation of Jerusalem, obtained permission from the king to rebuild the ruins.

The old man's grief was agonizing and inconsolable.

She rocked in the chair, consumed by grief and breath-robbing sobs.

When this project came to grief, Guchkov continued to support Stolypin.

As she had said, Destiny would have the love she deserved, and Lori would have the time to recover from grief before her decision became irreversible.

There are many ways to use poetry in times of grief.

I don't need that kind of grief.

They range from the rough and noble pathos of Egil, the mystic obscurity of Kormak, the pride and grief of Hallfred, and the marvellous fluency of Sighvat, to the florid intricacy of Einar and Markus.

I can barely visualize others not so fortunate and the grief they're forced to carry.

The Buddha and the disciples who had attained supreme perfect enlightenment felt no grief about anything, whatever happened to them.

His death was caused, it is said, by grief at the humiliation to which he had been subjected.

Similarly, though like other men he will be subject to bodily pain, this will not cause him mental grief or disquiet, as his worst agonies will not disturb his clear conviction that it is really indifferent to his true reasonable self.

Pity he finds to be grief for the calamity of others, arising from imagination of the like calamity befalling oneself; what we admire with seeming disinterestedness as beautiful (pulchrum) is really " pleasure in promise "; when men are not immediately seeking present pleasure, they desire power as a means to future pleasure, and thus have a derivative delight in the exercise of power that prompts to what we call benevolent action.

The campaign will continue in its attempts to reduce the grief of families who lose loved ones as a result of driving inexperience.

The place was not very opportune for her grief.

Next to her, a young man sat on the kerbside, his body wracked in grief as he cried and cried.

The only thing that will lessen that grief is time.

Parents should also let children witness their own adult grief.

Their fluctuating emotions may include anger, grief, guilt, and fear.

Grief comes in many forms and it doesn't always arrive as an unexpected event.

Finding hope and comfort in times of grief is an enormous challenge.

Steele give us How to Recover from Grief.

Along the same lines, a sword cross plunging into a heart could symbolize grief over a lost love, another popular theme in the Gothic world.

The story goes that after Castor died, Pollux was so grief stricken that he wished his immortality upon Castor.

Disappointment, depression, denial, and even anger are common feelings of grief experienced in the months following a diagnosis, as expectations for the future must be adjusted.

The grief is understandable considering the fear and apprehension that accompany the unknown.

An obvious example is if you're a grief counselor and there's a big tragedy in the news, you could speak to the media as an expert in talking to kids about death.

If you have any kind of skin sensitivity or allergy, a bra made of man-made fabrics can cause a lot of grief.

These sacrifices were done to pacify the spirits so that they wouldn't damage the crops or cause anyone grief.

As for the rest, you are working through the human stages of grief.

I never had children myself, so I can only imagine your grief.

Why don't you just buy the land from them and save yourself all this grief?

Dean's past involvements with Sheriff Weller had always managed to cause the lawman untold grief.

His friendship with Antigonus Gonatas seems to have roused suspicion as to his loyalty, and he sought safety first in the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus, and later with Antigonus, at whose court he is said to have died of grief.

His superiority over all his Muscovite contemporaries was due to the fact that he was already a statesman, in the modern sense, while they were still learning the elements of statesmanship. His death was an irreparable loss to the tsar, who wrote upon the despatch announcing it, the words "Peter filled with grief."

During this time Rome was horrorstruck by the mysterious murder of the young duke of Gandia, and the bereaved pope mourned his son with the wildest grief.

Rivalin is killed in battle, and Blancheflor, after giving birth to a son, dies of grief.

The most i m important developments of the cult are in East Asia p p among the Siberian tribes; among the Ainu of Sakhalin a young bear is caught at the end of winter and fed for some nine months; then after receiving honours it is killed, and the people, who previously show marks of grief at its approaching fate, dance merrily and feast on its body.

With some very good jumpers - they can hardly be called good hunters - to steady them is to bid for a fall, while with some very clever hunters to hurry them is to bring them to grief.