grief

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Suffering, hardship. countable,uncountable
    — The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.
  2. Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. countable,uncountable
    — She was worn out from so much grief.
  3. A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial. countable
    — Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
动词 v.
  1. To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism. Internet
    — While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

词形变化

griefs plural grieves plural greefe alternative,obsolete griefe alternative,obsolete griefs present,singular,third-person griefing participle,present griefed participle,past griefed past greefe alternative,obsolete griefe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
climate grief come to grief eco-grief ecological grief give someone grief good grief grief counselor griefful grief knot griefless grieflike griefsome grief-stricken grief-struck grief tech grief technology grief tourist griefwork griefy heartgrief spleef ungrief

词源

词源 1
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
词源 2
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
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