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grieved

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verb

past tense of grieve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grieved
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Long Live Curt, a tribute to a close friend who died, could fit on a DJ set with the heartbroken singalongs of fellow Floridians like St. Petersburg’s Rod Wave and Jacksonville’s Lil Poppa.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 Mar. 2025
  • But in a confessional, Stacey weeps while sympathizing with her heartbroken friend.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Also Thursday, people mourned eight Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
    Josef Federman and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • And yet, 32 games later, the transaction is barely mourned and hardly mentioned.
    John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But viewers, particularly younger female ones, relished their bond — and were heartsick when the stars ended their real-life romance in 2007 after two years.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg was a punk-rock Jackson Browne, a pugilistic but ultimately heartsick poet with matinee-idol looks.
    Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
Adjective
  • The lawyer, played by Kayla Wallace, listens with the sorrowful look of a child who has burned down a Ronald McDonald house with her terminally ill brother inside.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Being successful in America, according to Part II, inherently means becoming the bad guy, and Francis Ford Coppola mourns that fact, abetted by arguably Pacino’s finest, most sorrowful performance as a man who sells every bit of his soul to maintain his power.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Goldie’s also hosts a delightful afternoon tea, with sweets like strawberry and cream cake, peaches and cream tart, early grey tea mousse along with savories such as butter scones, coronation gougere (cheese Gougère, coronation chicken salad, apricots, almonds), and burrata tomato tartine.
    Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • While Ivanka dreamt of an American design for the speech, first lady Melania Trump had Paris on her mind in a grey jacket and matching skirt from Dior — which held its Paris Fashion Week fall 2025 show on the same day.
    WWD Staff, WWD, 4 Mar. 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
  • Inside, cement walls, matte-iron tables and poured concrete floors are complemented by gray curtains along the perimeter — highlighting the store’s monochromatic palette.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
  • There was a single pillow and a worn gray blanket that lay folded at the foot.
    Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • But a tire mark left on a desolate road near a missing woman’s car changes everything.
    Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Grieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grieved. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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