"grief" Definition

Definitions for the word "grief" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. a.
Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 intense sorrow. 2 cause of this. come to grief meet with disaster. [french: related to *grieve]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. slang
“to come to GRIEF,” to meet with an accident, to be ruined.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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