Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. Reeve an officer.]

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.]

[1913 Webster]

Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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. [1913 Webster]

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. --Eph. iv. 30. [1913 Webster]

The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. --Cowper, [1913 Webster]

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

[1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Grieve \Grieve\, v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. [1913 Webster]

Do not you grieve at this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "grieve": ache, affect, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, barb the dart, bear, bemoan, bewail, bleed, break down, bring to tears, brood over, bruise, complain, constrain, crush, cry, cut, cut up, deplore, desolate, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, draw tears, elegize, embitter, endure, fret, give offense, give sorrow words, give umbrage, hurt, hurt the feelings, injure, inundate, keen, knell, lament, melt, melt the heart, moan, mope, mourn, move, offend, oppress, outrage, overwhelm, pain, pierce, pine, pine away, prick, prostrate, reach, regret, repine, rue, sadden, shed tears, sigh, sing the blues, soften, sorrow, stab, sting, suffer, take on, torment, touch, twist the knife, wail, weep, weep over, wound

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

grieve

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. Reeve an officer.]

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.]

Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Grieve \Grieve\, v. i. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.

Do not you grieve at this. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)