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verb

past tense of grieve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grieved
Adjective
  • King was on an errand to pick up a snack for his mom when he was shot, heartbroken relatives said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Downs recovered from her injuries but remained heartbroken over the loss of her friends and overwhelmed with survivor's guilt.
    Laurel Morales, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The people of Oklahoma and Grady County in particular mourned his passing.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In response to the video, some social media users mourned the decline of PlayPlaces and similar play areas.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Brolin plays a particularly heartsick parent coming for Garner and demanding answers about his missing daughter.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
  • As the titular Buffy, Gellar ably led her gang of monster-slayers (and heartsick teenagers) through seven seasons.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The dissolve from a god’s eye view of a comforting, warm embrace in a bed between mother and daughter to the cold, sorrowful chill of Alex’s lonely body hits us like a wallop.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • No other actor this year delivered a line with more sorrowful force.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For a warm and welcoming design idea, such as a patio hugged in greenery, consider a cream-colored block—a nice middle ground between edgy grey concrete and natural stone.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Lindo, at 6 feet 4 inches, enters the restaurant on an overcast Wednesday afternoon, sporting aviator shades, a thin, grey beanie, and a colorful summer scarf of different orange, pink, and yellow hues.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • This is what passes for epiphany for the solemn, solitary Jane, who searches for self-knowledge in a woebegone key.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Emme opted for a gray pinstripe suit and plaid tie.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • According to the sheriff's office, Wolfe was last seen driving a gray 2020 Can-Am Defender side-by-side vehicle, and her cell phone was either no longer active or turned on.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Fourteen years of war have left the country desolate, and its people exhausted; millions have been displaced or were forced to become refugees.
    Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani, The Dial, 25 Mar. 2025
  • That quality is maintained first and foremost by a desolate whistling-wind sound effect in the background of all the scenes, along with a sustained droning musical score.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Grieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grieved. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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