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grief
What does grief mean?
grief (noun): intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use grief in a sentence?
- Our grief was overwhelming. (Tatoeba sentence #12497473 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce grief?
/ɡɹif/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does grief come from?
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of grief?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “grief”?
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What does “grief” mean?
a daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling
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miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects
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intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
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the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
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Which word is closest in meaning to “grief”?
heartache
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community
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character
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committee
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