Other forms: grieving, grieved, grieves
To grieve is to live through deep sorrow after a loss. Grieve for him, still grieving, grieve in your own way.
The preposition is for or over. Grieving is a process rather than a state, and the idea that it has fixed stages in a fixed order is a popular misreading of the research. There is no correct length. In employment, a grievance is a formal complaint, from the same word. Note grief, which is the noun; and good grief, which is a mild exclamation of surprise unrelated to any actual sorrow.
1verbgrieveTo live through deep sorrow after a loss.
“The family is still grieving for their son, who died last year.”
synonyms: mourn, sorrow
grieve is a sorrowing.
Also accepted in games: mourn
Old French grever meant to burden, from Latin gravare, from gravis, heavy — the same root as grave, gravity and aggravate. Grief is heaviness, which is how nearly everybody describes it.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷreh₂-
Latin
gravo
Old French
grever — to burden
Middle English
greven
English, today
grieve
Built from
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravo, from adjective gravis (“grave”). For the meaning development compare тяготи́ть (“to be a burden (on), to oppress”), тужи́ть (“to experience grief”), related to тяжёлый (“heavy, grave”), тя́жкий.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA