Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to grief
Participle: griefed
Gerund: griefing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | grief |
| you | grief |
| he;she;it | griefs |
| we | grief |
| you | grief |
| they | grief |
Perfect
| I | have griefed |
| you | have griefed |
| he;she;it | has griefed |
| we | have griefed |
| you | have griefed |
| they | have griefed |
Past
| I | griefed |
| you | griefed |
| he;she;it | griefed |
| we | griefed |
| you | griefed |
| they | griefed |
Pluperfect
| I | had griefed |
| you | had griefed |
| he;she;it | had griefed |
| we | had griefed |
| you | had griefed |
| they | had griefed |
Future
| I | will grief |
| you | will grief |
| he;she;it | will grief |
| we | will grief |
| you | will grief |
| they | will grief |
Future Perfect
| I | will have griefed |
| you | will have griefed |
| he;she;it | will have griefed |
| we | will have griefed |
| you | will have griefed |
| they | will have griefed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | grief |
| you | grief |
| he;she;it | grief |
| we | grief |
| you | grief |
| they | grief |
Perfect
| I | have griefed |
| you | have griefed |
| he;she;it | have griefed |
| we | have griefed |
| you | have griefed |
| they | have griefed |
Imperfect
| I | griefed |
| you | griefed |
| he;she;it | griefed |
| we | griefed |
| you | griefed |
| they | griefed |
Pluperfect
| I | had griefed |
| you | had griefed |
| he;she;it | had griefed |
| we | had griefed |
| you | had griefed |
| they | had griefed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would grief |
| you | would grief |
| he;she;it | would grief |
| we | would grief |
| you | would grief |
| they | would grief |
Perfect
| I | would have griefed |
| you | would have griefed |
| he;she;it | would have griefed |
| we | would have griefed |
| you | would have griefed |
| they | would have griefed |
Imperative
| you | grief |
| we | Let's grief |
| you | grief |
Verbs conjugated like 'grief'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'grief'
brief,
chief,
drie,
gie,
gif,
graff,
gree,
greed,
greek,
green,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Sample Sentences
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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. [2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:]