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t. & i. [O. Fr. grever; Prov. grevar, greviar, from Lat. gravo = to burden; gravis = heavy; Ital. gravare; Sp. & Port. gravar.] grieve 2. To cause grief, sorrow, or pain of mind to; to make sorrowful; to wound the feelings of; to affect. "The prycke of conscyence grevyth me sore." Penitential Psalms , p. 8. 3. To offend against. "Grieve not the holy spirit of God."- Ephes . iv. 30. 4. To lament, to mourn, to deplore, to sorrow over. "The nothing that I grieve ." Shakesp.: Richard II ., ii. 2. B. In trans.: To feel grief, sorrow, or pain; to mourn, to lament, to sorrow. (Generally followed by at, for, or over.) "Grieve, and they grieve."-Dryden: Juvenal , sat. iii. griēve, *greēve, s . [A. S. gerefa ; Icel. greifi ; Sw. grefve : Dan. greve .] An overseer, a steward, a reeve, a bailiff. "And sick like dung as the grieve has gi'en me."- Scott : Rob Roy, ch. xiv. *griēve-měnt, s. [Eng. grieve ; -ment.] An injury; a cause or source of grief "Wounds, bruises, bangs, and other grievements." Ward: England's Reformation , i. 90.