/gri:v; ˇriv/
v (fml 文)
1 [Tn] cause great sorrow to (sb) 使（某人）极为悲伤
*Your mother is very grieved by your refusal to return home. 你离家不归, 你母亲极为伤心.
* It grieves me to hear how disobedient you've been. 听说你很不听话, 使我感到非常难过.
* It grieves me to have to say it, but (ie It is regrettably true that) you have only yourself to blame. 我是万不得已才说的, 但你是咎由自取.
2 (a) [I, Ipr] ~ (for sb); ~ (over/about sb/sth) feel a deep sorrow because of loss （因失去而）感到悲痛
*Their daughter died over a year ago, but they are still grieving. 他们的女儿死去已一年多了, 但他们现在仍很悲痛.
* grieve for one's (dead, lost) child 为（死去的、失去的）孩子伤心
* grieve over the death of sb 为某人之死而悲哀.
(b) [Ipr] ~ at/about/over sth feel deep regret (about sth) （对某事）感到非常後悔、懊悔
*It's no use grieving about past errors. 为以往的错误懊悔于事无补.

v
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French;Origin: grever, from Latin gravare 'to load heavily', from gravis; GRAVE¹]
[I and T]
to feel extremely sad, especially because someone you love has died
grieve over/for
　He died, and every day since then I have grieved for him.
　People need time to grieve after the death of a loved one.
　She grieved the loss of her only son.
[T]
if something grieves you, it makes you feel very unhappy
= upset
　My aunt, it grieves me to say, gets things confused.