grieve
Feel profound sorrow
Grieve means to feel deep sorrow, especially over a death: She grieved for months after losing her father.
The grief may be private or expressed openly.
You can grieve a person, a loss, or an abstraction: grieving the end of a relationship, grieving what might have been.
To grieve someone is to cause them distress, though this use is now rare outside formal contexts like labor disputes, where filing a grievance is called grieving.
Grieve for the dead
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- weepShed tears emotionally
- sobConvulsive weeping
- cryVocal expression of emotion
wail · keening · dirge · elegy · requiem · funeral · wake · shiva
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- despairTotal absence of hope
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sadnessState of emotional pain
pain · suffering · woe · melancholy · desolation · torment · devastation · brokenhearted
State following loss
- deathCessation of life
- passingMoving by or temporary
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- widowBereaved wife, unmarried since
widower · orphan · survivor · deceased · departed · gone · absence · void
Stored past experiences
- tributeOffering of respect
- legacyWhat's passed down
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- anniversaryRecurring memorial date
keepsake · memento · photograph · cemetery · epitaph · headstone · flowers · candle
Regaining what was lost
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- supportTo uphold or sustain
comfort · consolation · resilience · closure · processing · coping · stages · time
mourn
Grieve for the dead
cry · wail · keening · dirge · elegy · requiem · funeral · wake · shiva · condolences
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
sadness · pain · suffering · woe · melancholy · desolation · torment · devastation · brokenhearted · emptiness
bereavement
State following loss
widow · widower · orphan · survivor · deceased · departed · gone · absence · void · missing
memories
Stored past experiences
anniversary · keepsake · memento · photograph · cemetery · epitaph · headstone · flowers · candle · honor
recovery
Regaining what was lost
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
support · comfort · consolation · resilience · closure · processing · coping · stages · time · gradual
- good griefExclamation of exasperation
- grief therapyTreatment for mourning
- give someone griefCriticize or annoy persistently
- grief counselingProfessional support through mourning
- stages of griefSequential mourning responses
- airing grievances
grief, grievance, grieving, grievous, grieved, grieves, aggrieved, grievously, aggrieve