n. 25B6; noun
he was overcome with grief : SORROW, misery, sadness, anguish, pain, distress, heartache, heartbreak, agony, torment, affliction, suffering, woe, desolation, dejection, despair; mourning, mournfulness, bereavement, lamentation; poetic/literary dolour, dole.
(informal) the police gave me loads of grief : TROUBLE, annoyance, bother, irritation, vexation, harassment; informal aggravation, aggro, hassle.
joy.
25A0; come to grief FAIL, meet with disaster, miscarry, go wrong, go awry, fall through, fall flat, founder, come to nothing, come to naught; informal come unstuck, come a cropper, flop, go phut; Brit. informal go pear-shaped.