grieve /ɡriːv/ BrE AmE verb
[ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: grever , from Latin gravare 'to load heavily' , from gravis ; ⇨ ↑ grave 1 ]
1 . [intransitive and transitive] 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.
2 . [transitive] if something grieves you, it makes you feel very unhappy SYN upset :
My aunt, it grieves me to say, gets things confused.