Engrieve

Quick meaning: Engrieve is a verb meaning (archaic, transitive) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

Meaning

(archaic, transitive) To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, intransitive) To grieve.

Example Sentences

Seeing his worke now wasted, deepe engrieved was

Even in men, aches and hurts and corns do engrieve, either towards rain or towards frost : for the one maketh the humours more to abound ; and the other maketh them sharper.

If any man had either fondly or indiscreetly spoken of Lent to engrieve it to be an importable burden, I would wish his reformation ; for I have not learned that all men are bound to keep the Lent in the form received.

1998, Annabel M. Patterson (editor), The trial of Nicholas Throckmorton (apparently derived from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577), I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.

Word Forms

• engrieves
• engrieving
• engrieved

Synonyms for engrieve

Depending on context, synonyms include distress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grieven, chagrin, perplex, engore, pain, beworry.

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