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synonyms for grief
- agony
- anguish
- bereavement
- despair
- discomfort
- gloom
- heartache
- heartbreak
- melancholy
- misery
- mourning
- pain
- regret
- remorse
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- woe
- worry
- affliction
- care
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despondency
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- grievance
- harassment
- infelicity
- lamentation
- malaise
- mortification
- mournfulness
- purgatory
- rue
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- vexation
- wretchedness
- bemoaning
- bewailing
- deploring
- lamenting
- repining
antonyms for grief
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How to use grief in a sentence
Some are funny and light, and others attempt to speak for a world that’s become mired in grief.
As a culture, we don’t seem to recognize the loss of intimacy or closeness in a relationship as legitimate grief.
Politics and conspiracy theories are fracturing relationships. Here’s how to grieve those broken bonds. | Jeff Schrum | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostPitched from that home, he becomes home unto himself—home at the speed of light but slower than the speed of grief.
In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home - Issue 95: Escape | Steve Erickson | February 10, 2021 | Nautilus
As Katz makes her way through the world, carrying grief and shame and secrets with her all the while, readers will hope for an easing of her burdens.
For a mother forced to give up her child, decades of grief, shame and secrets | Ellen McCarthy | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostFlipping between the voices of the family members, Hobson depicts the lingering effects of trauma, and the way grief informs memory and love.
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt warps them and yet makes them, and horrifies them both as it does so—just as grief does.
Energy is sucked from them, the world around them becomes impossible—the Babadook of grief and loss exerts its force everywhere.
The grief in this house is extreme of course; this is a horror movie, after all.
Amelia says some truly terrible things to Sam, supposedly inhabited by the Babadook but really consumed in grief.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
Children's Ways | James SullyThey wanted Papa and Mamma, gone to Bombay beyond the seas, and their grief while it lasted was without remedy.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThen I hesitated no longer, but turned away and left her alone with her grief; it was not for me to comfort her.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThen waves of grief broke over her, and she sobbed convulsively; but still she shed no tears.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonIn a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
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