Word Finder - grieved

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To cause sorrow or distress to.

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To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

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to grieve one's fate

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To experience grief.

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To harm.

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To submit or file a grievance (about).

My parents were deeply grieved and perplexed.

This news grieved him and yet he was pleased.

He alone had grieved over the grave.

But never had she felt so grieved for him or so much afraid of losing him.

He grieved her choice but also believe she got what she deserved for betraying the souls they were all charged with protecting.

When King Henry II died Richard was greatly grieved at his father's death.

Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me?

It was difficult to make me understand this; but when I did understand I was astonished and grieved.

Before leaving, Napoleon showed favor to the emperor, kings, and princes who had deserved it, reprimanded the kings and princes with whom he was dissatisfied, presented pearls and diamonds of his own--that is, which he had taken from other kings--to the Empress of Austria, and having, as his historian tells us, tenderly embraced the Empress Marie Louise--who regarded him as her husband, though he had left another wife in Paris--left her grieved by the parting which she seemed hardly able to bear.

The change that took place in Natasha at first surprised Princess Mary; but when she understood its meaning it grieved her.

It was plain that what troubled him most was that he had grieved me.

He grieved for years and Sarah worried for a time that he might find someone to stake him.

Shamash the sun-god was invested with justice as his chief trait, Marduk is portrayed as full of mercy and kindness, Ea is the protector of mankind who is grieved when, through a deception practised upon Adapa, humanity is deprived of immortality.

Butler was an earnest and deep-thinking Christian, melancholy by temperament, and grieved by what seemed to him the hopelessly irreligious condition of his age.

Our friends had been lying dead as my wife read the note and ranted at their thoughtless exit and grieved at their absence.

He loved his dog, his comrades, the French, and Pierre who was his neighbor, but Pierre felt that in spite of Karataev's affectionate tenderness for him (by which he unconsciously gave Pierre's spiritual life its due) he would not have grieved for a moment at parting from him.

But Henry and Marguerite still continued friends; she still bore the title of queen; she visited Marie de' Medici on equal terms; and the king frequently consulted her on important affairs, though his somewhat parsimonious spirit was grieved by her extravagance.

Thus 1593, c. 174, provides that, if any respite or remission happen to be granted before the party grieved be first satisfied, the same is to be null and of none avail.

Moreover, just at the end of the year a loss which greatly shocked and grieved the queen was experienced in the sudden death, at Windsor Castle, of the Dowager Lady Churchill, one of her oldest and most intimate friends.

But noticing the grieved expression on Princess Mary's face she guessed the reason of that sadness and suddenly began to cry.

This company of faithful but not always sufficiently charitable men represented their people, so that it might be said that Israel itself (the second Isaiah's "Servant of Yahweh" - see IsAIAH) had taken up its duty, but in an ungenial spirit which grieved the All-merciful One.

Like his father he was deeply grieved by the liberal theology and Church polity of the new Brattle Street Congregation, and conscientiously opposed its pastor Benjamin Colman, who had been irregularly ordained in England and by a Presbyterian body; but with his father he took part in 1700 in services in Colman's church.

Grieved at the ignorance and superstition which the remissness of the clergy permitted to flourish in the neighbouring parishes, he used every year to visit the most neglected parts of Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland; and that his own flock might not suffer, he was at the expense of a constant assistant.

No such demonstration of grief was expected even by those who grieved the most.

The Mantuan peasant was grieved at the notion of his harvest being gathered by barbarian soldiers, and the Irishman could not be better pleased to see his destroyed.

He seemed grieved that Pierre had no parents, especially that he had no mother.

Dorothy carried her in her arms back to where the others sat in grieved and thoughtful silence.

This letter grieved and mortified Nicholas.

It was just then that he received a letter from his wife, who implored him to see her, telling him how grieved she was about him and how she wished to devote her whole life to him.

Teacher is sad, and let her feel the grieved expression on my face.