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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grieved}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Grieving}.] [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare
     to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See {Grief.}]
     1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to
        make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt;
        to try.


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              Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.    --Eph. iv. 30.
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              The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
                                                    --Cowper,
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     2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "grieved":
     aching, aggrieved, anguished, bleeding, bruised, careworn, cut,
     doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, grief-stricken, griefful,
     grievous, hurt, in grief, injured, lamentable, lugubrious, mauled,
     mournful, pained, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful,
     sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stung, tearful, woeful, wounded
  
  

















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