grief

  • 31GRIEF — n. m. Sujet de plainte que l’on a ou que l’on croit avoir pour un dommage reçu. Quel grief avez vous contre moi? Exposer ses griefs. J’ai plusieurs griefs contre lui. Faire grief de quelque chose à quelqu’un, Lui en savoir mauvais gré, le lui… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 32grief — See: come to grief, good grief, good night(2) or good grief …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 33grief — noun 1》 intense sorrow, especially caused by someone s death.     ↘an instance or cause of intense sorrow. 2》 informal trouble or annoyance. Phrases come to grief have an accident; meet with disaster. good grief! an exclamation of surprise or… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 34grief —   Kaumaha, kani uhū, kūmakena, ū.   Also: ūpē, maka ūpē, mānewanewa, ho omānewanewa, pānewanewa, māna ona o, ho omāna ona o, mokuāhua, mokumokuāhua, paumākō, hihipe a, ikiiki, polohina, na auauā, manawahua.    ♦ To lighten grief, ho olana.   For… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 35grief — n. 1 deep or intense sorrow or mourning. 2 the cause of this. Phrases and idioms: come to grief meet with disaster; fail. good (or great) grief! an exclamation of surprise, alarm, etc. Etymology: ME f. AF gref, OF grief f. grever GRIEVE(1) …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 36GRIEF — IÈVE. adj. Grand, considérable, énorme. Griève maladie. Il est défendu, sous de grièves peines, de... Le crime, le cas n est pas si grief que vous le faites. Une faute griève. Péché fort grief. Il ne se dit qu en mauvaise part …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 37grief — 1. noun /ɡriːf/ a) Suffering, hardship. She was worn out from so much grief. b) Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. The b …

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  • 38Grief — Recorded as Griff, Griffe, Grief, Greif, Greiffe, Greive, Gryffe and others, this is an Olde English and Welsh surname. In origin it is pre 7th century name and is a short form of the Welsh personal name Grippiud , the modern Griffith. The normal …

    Surnames reference

  • 39grief — Synonyms and related words: accident, ache, aching, aching heart, adversity, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bale, bemoaning, bewailing, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding heart, blow, broken heart …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40grief — [13] ‘Oppressiveness’ is the link between modern English grief and Latin gravis (source of English gravity). The Latin adjective meant ‘heavy, weighty’, and it formed the basis of a verb gravāre ‘weigh upon, oppress’. This passed into Old French… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins