Word Meanings - ENGRIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grieve. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to ENGRIEVE)

• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• GRIEVE; GREEVE
  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
• GRIEVER
  One who, or that which, grieves.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• INGRIEVE
  To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney.
• AGGRIEVE
  To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay. (more info) burden, injure, L. gravare