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Another word for grief

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Noun

  1. Mental anguish or pain caused by loss or despair

    See also:

    happy

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for grief

Noun

  1. Mental distress

    Antonyms:

  2. The cause of distress

    See also:

    difficulty

Idioms:

    come-to-grief

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Sentence Examples

  • To the grief of his mother he left the Roman church.

  • She exhibited great grief at his death.

  • The grief was so strong that it became a nauseating pain.

  • Grief made people say cruel things, sometimes.

  • Grief had overwhelmed her so completely, it was like a bad dream she could not shake off.

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