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grief
noun
- 1a. Great sorrow and unhappiness, especially at someone's death;
- Thesaurus: sorrow, anguish, misery, distress, bereavement, woe, pain, lamentation.
- Thesaurus: tribulation, affliction, trouble, difficulty, hardship.
- Trouble or bother.
- Example: was getting grief from her parents for staying out late
- To end in failure.
- To have an accident.
- An exclamation expressing shock, surprise, fear, etc.
