grieve vs sorrow what difference
what is difference between grieve and sorrow
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ɡɹiːv/
- Rhymes: -iːv
Etymology 1
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravō, gravāre, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
- (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- Thy maidens griev’d themselves at my concern.
- (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one’s fate
- (intransitive) To experience grief.
- (transitive, archaic) To harm.
- (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
- 2009 D’Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); “Austin classified employees gain due process rights”, April 2009, p14:
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the […] Board of Trustees.
- 2009 D’Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); “Austin classified employees gain due process rights”, April 2009, p14:
Derived terms
- begrieve
- grieved
- griever
- grievingly
Related terms
- grievance
- grievous
- grief
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German grēve, grâve,
related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ġerēfa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
- (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
- (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Derived terms
- grieveship
Anagrams
- regive
Old French
Verb
grieve
- third-person singular present indicative of grever
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorg, from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sŏrʼō, IPA(key): /ˈsɒɹ.əʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɹ.oʊ/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɹ.oʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ
Noun
sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)
- (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)
- (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Derived terms
- besorrow
Translations
References
- “sorrow” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “sorrow” in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.