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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grief
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring sb pleasure/joy/pain/grief etc
▪ The decision brought him great relief.
crazed with grief/pain/fear etc
▪ He was crazed with grief after the death of his mother.
express your grief (=say or show that you are very sad, especially because someone you love has died)
▪ She searched for further words to express her grief, but could find none.
mad with grief/fear/jealousy etc
▪ When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief.
public display of grief/affection etc (=showing your emotions so that everyone can see)
▪ She was acutely embarrassed by his public display of temper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ You find out how many diameters make a circumference! Good grief, have you no brains at all?
▪ Indy Racing League civil war. Good grief.
▪ It's Lady Godiva and - good grief - those are naked bosoms.
▪ But it smelled awful. Good grief!
great
▪ A great grief has fallen upon the kingdom and there is deep apprehension for the future.
private
▪ He had kept away from the house, not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards' private grief.
▪ To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief.
▪ As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
▪ Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief.
public
▪ His funeral in Algiers on July 1 was the scene of demonstrations of public grief by a crowd of at least 10,000.
▪ A public show of grief acknowledges that fact.
▪ A sense of release is created by such public demonstrations of grief that clearly triggers many people into dealing with their feelings.
▪ After his body was returned to Kinshasa, carefully planned scenes of public grief turned into a mass demonstration of patriotic fervour.
▪ He said the public grief and that of the bereaved families has been enormous.
■ NOUN
reaction
▪ Further, there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself.
▪ Could her refusal be part of a prolonged grief reaction to her sister's death and to her miserable marriage?
▪ It follows that affirmative assessors must be able to discriminate at least between these two types of grief reaction.
■ VERB
bring
▪ Every change in our lives brings with it griefs, even changes for the better.
▪ This was evidently a family that was not going to be brought closer by grief.
▪ This will only bring about grief for what do we really know about ourselves or some one else?
cause
▪ Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again.
▪ But until then I had no inkling that pictures of black women would cause newspaper executives such grief.
▪ Normally this would have caused me considerable grief, but this time I was prepared to tough it out.
▪ And while the budget negotiations are causing grief right now for front-running Sen.
▪ The oil caused enough grief in Scapa Flow at the time.
▪ The breakup caused no lasting anger, but it did cause grief and tears.
▪ But they were used in another manner, as well, that caused much grief for everyone involved.
▪ He also re-members the massive enemy tunnel network that caused so much grief and frustration.
come
▪ She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.
▪ Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.
▪ The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.
▪ This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.
▪ Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief?
▪ When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.
▪ But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.
deal
▪ But others in the professional psychological field regard the institution as an effective and important way of dealing with grief.
▪ A session Saturday morning dealt with getting through grief and dealing with the burn injuries.
▪ To some extent, adults can choose of their own free will whether to deal with their grief or not.
▪ In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.
express
▪ These notices are sometimes the only way the agnostic or the non-church member can find of expressing their grief.
▪ The faces and bodies of the three black women express various degrees of grief, uncertainty and pain.
▪ In close communities like mines, the workers have been able to express both grief and anger openly.
▪ Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief.
▪ Churches were safe places to meet to express grief, and huge numbers gathered to light candles.
▪ Sessions four, five and six During these sessions she was further encouraged to express her feelings of grief.
feel
▪ When he died, she felt no real grief.
▪ She felt that extremes of grief or pleasure were vulgar, and placed control high on her list of priorities.
▪ She was, of course, quite well in the sense of feeling no actual grief or pain.
▪ But I doubt whether anyone is feeling a purely personal grief.
▪ People felt collective shame, grief and responsibility.
▪ She felt no grief, but a dull anger thudded like a drum in her temple.
▪ Their names have never appeared in the media, which shared the feeling of shame and grief and responsibility.
▪ They felt no grief and experienced no real sense of loss.
give
▪ I can't remember his name though! emailinc Sounds like some one is giving you grief?
▪ And if you gave them any grief at all, they said they would just kick her out.
▪ These calls, they gave me no grief.
▪ When my child died I might have given way to grief as I loved him very much.
▪ Fans are sure to give him a fair trial before they give him any grief.
▪ Business development managers also interview heads of functional areas within eBay to discover what aspects of past deals gave them grief.
▪ One set was given grief therapy and the other sent on a community programme.
overwhelm
▪ He was not overwhelmed with grief for Kit, but evidently his eyes felt otherwise.
▪ When Alcyone learned what he was planning she was overwhelmed with grief and terror.
▪ I was overwhelmed by grief and revulsion such as I had never known before.
▪ When she was gone he was overwhelmed with grief and de creed that she should have the most magnificent of funerals.
share
▪ I feel pretty helpless, have a good cry and share my grief with colleagues who also knew David.
▪ Midge's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be out of your mind with worry/grief etc
good grief/God/Lord/heavens/gracious!
▪ Good grief! I forgot my keys again.
spasm of grief/laughter/coughing etc
▪ A spasm of coughing woke him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was overcome with grief when his wife died.
▪ Thousands of people sent floral tributes as an expression of their grief.
▪ We didn't say much, but his grief was obvious.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the boy knew in that circumstance was grief and worry and surprise and rage.
▪ It is his own mind's way of coping with the grief, and he knows it.
▪ She'd thought it was Anna, snuffling in her sleep or from grief.
▪ The oil caused enough grief in Scapa Flow at the time.
▪ This will only bring about grief for what do we really know about ourselves or some one else?
▪ Tomorrow, he decided, he must press her to a full disclosure of the grief harboured in her heart.
▪ Whatever pangs of grief and guilt and shame Emilia might suffer had remained locked inside her, an unapproachable wound.
▪ When my child died I might have given way to grief as I loved him very much.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grief

Grief \Grief\ (gr[=e]f), n. [OE. grief, gref, OF. grief, gref, F. grief, L. gravis heavy; akin to Gr. bary`s, Skr. guru, Goth. ka['u]rus. Cf. Barometer, Grave, a., Grieve, Gooroo.]

  1. 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.

    The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, . . . that she died for grief of it.
    --Addison.

  2. Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

    Be factious for redress of all these griefs.
    --Shak.

  3. Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady. [R.]

    This grief (cancerous ulcers) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot.
    --Wood.

    To come to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]

    Syn: Affiction; sorrow; distress; sadness; trial; grievance.

    Usage: Grief, Sorrow, Sadness. Sorrow is the generic term; grief is sorrow for some definite cause -- one which commenced, at least, in the past; sadness is applied to a permanent mood of the mind. Sorrow is transient in many cases; but the grief of a mother for the loss of a favorite child too often turns into habitual sadness. ``Grief is sometimes considered as synonymous with sorrow; and in this case we speak of the transports of grief. At other times it expresses more silent, deep, and painful affections, such as are inspired by domestic calamities, particularly by the loss of friends and relatives, or by the distress, either of body or mind, experienced by those whom we love and value.''
    --Cogan. See Affliction.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grief

early 13c., "hardship, suffering, pain, bodily affliction," from Old French grief "wrong, grievance, injustice, misfortune, calamity" (13c.), from grever "afflict, burden, oppress," from Latin gravare "to cause grief, make heavy," from gravis "weighty" (see grave (adj.)). Meaning "mental pain, sorrow" is from c.1300.

Wiktionary
grief

n. 1 suffering, hardship. (from early 13th c.) 2 pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. (from early 14th c.) 3 (context countable English) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. vb. (context online gaming English) 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. (from late 20th Century)

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WordNet
grief

  1. n. intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) [syn: heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness]

  2. something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John" [syn: sorrow]

Wikipedia
Grief

Grief is a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss.

Grief is a natural response to loss. It is the emotional suffering one feels when something or someone the individual loves is taken away. Grief is also a reaction to any loss. The grief associated with death is familiar to most people, but individuals grieve in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as unemployment, ill health or the end of a relationship. Loss can be categorized as either physical or abstract, the physical loss being related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, while other types of loss are abstract, and relate to aspects of a person’s social interactions.

Grief (band)

Grief was a Boston-based sludge metal band.

Grief (novel)

Grief is a novel by American author Andrew Holleran, published in 2006. The novel takes place in Washington D.C., following the personal journey of a middle-aged, gay man dealing with the death of his mother. The novel received the 2007 Stonewall Book Award.

Grief (disambiguation)

Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss.

Grief may also refer to:

  • Grief (novel), by Andrew Holleran
  • Grief (band), an American doom metal band
  • Grief (Gargoyles)
  • Griefer, a video gaming slang term
  • "Grief", the colloquial name for the Adams Memorial statue in Washington, D.C.
  • Grief, an alternate title of Lover's Grief over the Yellow River, a 1999 Chinese film
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Usage examples of "grief".

I will not wear thy soul with words about my grief and sorrow: but it is to be told that I sat now in a perilous place, and yet I might not step down from it and abide in that land, for then it was a sure thing, that some of my foes would have laid hand on me and brought me to judgment for being but myself, and I should have ended miserably.

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

A raw and overwhelming grief flooded her, and her throat ached with defeat.

Noble grief there is in him, and noble melancholy can come upon him, but acquiescence is his last word.

His grief is too immense and his loss too heavy to be adequately expressed in words.

Jacopo was really living in the house of the Agnus Dei, where he kept a beautiful Georgian slave in unheard-of luxury, and that this was a great grief to his father, who was therefore very desirous of hastening the marriage with Marietta.

This lowly Thought, which once would talk with me Of a bright seraph sitting crowned on high, Found such a cruel foe it died, and so My Spirit wept, the grief is hot even now-- And said, Alas for me!

Now and then we recollected that the time of our separation was near at hand, our grief was bitter, but we contrived to forget it in the ecstacy of our amorous enjoyment.

He was lying near at hand, overwhelmed with grief and seasickness, and watching and listening with all his might for the amorous encounter he suspected us of engaging in.

She was astonished to see me so undone and cast down, and asked me what was the grief of which I had spoken to her father, and which had proved too strong for my philosophy.

To the grief of Madam Rothsay herself, and of the beautiful charge from whom she was thus separated, this plan was at once carried out, with the result that Mahng was restored to his followers.

Eliason cast his mantle over his head and averted his face, an elven response to grief.

We stood awed, watching that poor, pale face, on every line of which was written stunned, motionless, impassive grief.

Tanner said in the matter-of-fact tone with which men of his generation felt obliged to conceal their tenderest emotions, but in spite of the squint, those azurite eyes betrayed the drowning depth of his grief.

She called me her sole friend, her only protector, and in speaking of her grief in not being able to see me any more whilst she remained in the convent, she begged me to remain faithful to her dear friend.