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Grieving

Grieving \Griev"ing\, a. Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. -- n. The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved. -- Griev"ing*ly, adv.
--Shak.

Grieving

Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.]

  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

    Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
    --Eph. iv. 30.

    The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
    --Cowper,

  2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grieving

mid-15c., "causing pain," present participle adjective from grieve. Meaning "feeling pain" is from 1807.

Wiktionary
grieving

n. An act or instance of grieving. vb. (present participle of grieve English)

WordNet
grieving

adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" [syn: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)]

Usage examples of "grieving".

Often trauma victims are too concerned with finding their family, surviving, grieving deaths, getting away from their abuser, etc.

She had worked with grieving families during her time with the Feeb, and all of them had seen only questions in that terrible place of loss where no good answers exist.

MacPherson addresses common concerns: -- How families deal with young and teenage children of sick and dying parents -- How family and friends provide better caregiving support -- Why resilience, anger, and humor sustain us and why platitudes are odious -- The health field: why doctors avoid death and often ignore dying patients, and advice for change -- Grieving: how long it lasts, how and why men and women grieve differently, what grievers can do, and how friends can help After Anna dies of breast cancer, you observe her husband, Jan, who learns how to grieve positively as he copes with both his pain and the struggles of a single parent raising two adolescents.

She was grieving, however, after the young boarder, who had been taken from the convent and married.

And she herself had hushed the grieving quiver of his lip, and quickly filled his dimpled hands with flowers to win the farewell caress of that dancing smile which irradiated his face like an April sunbeam, parting the pink lips over a vision of pearly infant teeth.

With many reverences Nama further informed him that the Fairest of all the Lilies pined for him, was grieving at his absence, but was now to be gladdened by the prospect of his speedy return, which tidings the Maharanee had deputed her to convey forthwith to the household of Lehna Singh.

When Drizzt and Catti-brie had gone to Menzoberranzan-Drizzt to end the threat to Mithril Hall, Catti-brie to find Drizzt-Regis had taken command to spur grieving Bruenor into preparing for war.

In the back of his mind Teigh still expected to find a shrine to the brilliant architect, kept exactly as David had left it the day he died and dusted carefully every day by his grieving widow, but when Laura flicked on the light that illusion fled with the darkness.

My younger brother Wole claims that he saw a water sprite bow before the grieving figure of Our Mother.

Soldiers dragon continued for three hundred years, grieving the only mother he had known when called to his funeral by Wos mournful barking.

The multigenerational ripple effect of prolonged illness, grieving, and accommodating overlap in the Megregian-Johannessen homes, as they do in so many families.

Tyndall had brought the shocked and grieving Hennessys into Cossack, settled them into his small house and then broached the idea of going into partnership in a pearling lugger.

The sad Li Tosh, the anguished Sonderval grieving for Delora wi Towt, Soli with his death-ruined eyes and silent face-almost all the pilots agreed we must call a truce.

Of a sudden he was sorry for the operator too, who had to sit out here obtaining nothing, knowing there was no hope, surrounded by grieving relatives, with armed guards stationed near the desk in case.

Lindsay, her voice neutral, controlled, belonging to the curator of Ancient Chinese Bronzes for the Museum of the Asias rather than to a vaguely frightened, grieving daughter.