grieves
Aches from loss
Grieves is the third-person singular of grieve, meaning to feel deep sorrow or cause someone to feel it.
Someone grieves a loss, mourns what's gone: She still grieves her father.
It can also mean to cause distress: It grieves me to say this, but you're not ready.
Period following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- lossBeing without something
- deathCessation of life
- widowBereaved wife, unmarried since
widower · orphan · condolences · obituary · eulogy · memorial · wake · shiva
Deep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
pain · despair · distress · woe · misery · lamentation · desolation · affliction
Ease or soothing relief
- consolationComfort during distress
- solaceRelief from distress
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- acceptanceConsent to receive
closure · support · therapy · counseling · resilience · coping · time heals · moving forward
Moral self-reproach
- regretSorrow over past actions
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- shamePainful awareness of failure
self-reproach · penitence · atonement · apology · confession · culpability · compunction · pangs
mourning
Period following loss
widow · widower · orphan · condolences · obituary · eulogy · memorial · wake · shiva · sitting shiva
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
torment · pain · despair · distress · woe · misery · lamentation · desolation · affliction · melancholy
comfort
Ease or soothing relief
- consolationComfort during distress
- solaceRelief from distress
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
acceptance · closure · support · therapy · counseling · resilience · coping · time heals · moving forward · remembering
guilt
Moral self-reproach
- regretSorrow over past actions
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
shame · self-reproach · penitence · atonement · apology · confession · culpability · compunction · pangs · ruefulness
grievescelebrates
Honors with festivities
rejoices · exults · revels · triumphs · commemorates
- grieving process
- grieving motherParent mourning lost offspring
- grieving parentOne mourning lost offspring
- grievous harmSerious physical damage
- workplace grievanceFormal job-related complaint
- grievous bodily harmSerious intentional physical injury
grieve, grievance, grieving, grievous, grieved, aggrieved, aggrieve, griever, aggrieves