Grief

/ɡɹiːf/ · noun

Meaning

Suffering, hardship..

Definitions by Sense

1. Suffering, hardship.
2. Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
3. (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
4. (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.

Example Sentences

The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.

She was worn out from so much grief.

The betrayal caused Jeff grief.

And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]

Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

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• griefs
• grieves
• greefe
• griefe
• griefing
• griefed

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