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grieving

/greev/US // griv //UK // (ɡriːv) //

悲痛,悲伤,哀伤,悲痛的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grieved, griev·ing.

    • : to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grieved, griev·ing.

    • : to distress mentally; cause to feel grief or sorrow: It grieves me to see you so unhappy.
    • : Archaic. to oppress or wrong.

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Examples

  • That’s the key to responsible mourning — remember that everyone grieves.

  • In the aftermath of the fire — as so often with disasters — grieving, homeless survivors wanted someone to blame, and Nero seemed a credible villain.

  • The grieving father played by Ian McShane, is a composite, as is the broken-hearted cheerleader played by Kate Mara.

  • This didn’t mean that I wasn’t upset when I found out her terminal diagnosis, or that I didn’t grieve for her afterward.

  • However, some have turned their backs on grieving families and separated children.

  • You know, when Lori died, I was interested in the five stages of grieving.

  • He was still grieving when he texted his wife on July 18, but he gave no indication that he was feeling ill.

  • We see press conferences featuring grieving parents making impassioned pleas like, “Not one more.”

  • This weekend, thousands of people will stand in line to pay $13 for the privilege of grieving to the point of weeping.

  • It will take a lot of work, a lot of grieving, and a large measure of hope to see it through.

  • The old fire now came over him, and the elders looked round sadly one at another, grieving that they should lose such a brother.

  • I had been grieving so much of late that this golden opportunity would pass by; but, thank God!

  • Her poorer neighbours understood far more than the others could understand, how sorely she was grieving about the child.

  • Is it that we are neglecting the prayerful study of God's Word, and thus grieving the Spirit by whom it was inspired?

  • On one such inauspicious day, the young poet Junius came into a square, thronged with the grieving populace.