Grieve /(grēv)/

1. A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.]

   Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve.

imp. & p. p. Grieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Grieving

1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

   Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

   The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.

2. To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]

1. To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.

   Do not you grieve at this.