grief-stricken

The two grief-stricken men ache to be understood.

The MP said women who befriended Kulsuma at the refuge were "petrified" and "grief-stricken" in the wake of her death.

That can put them on edge and heighten their separation anxiety, Langan said, and if their owners are depressed or grief-stricken about loss and uncertainty, the animals absorb those emotions too.

In it, the grief-stricken widow says with tears: "It is because of him that the world is still surviving. And we should all be proud of him in every way."

But one twin's diagnosis with acrania — a rare, fatal congenital disorder characterized by the full or partial absence of cranial bones — sent Brandt's world into a grief-stricken tailspin.