grieved

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Pronunciation

Verb

grieved

  1. simple past and past participle of grieve

Adjective

grieved (comparative more grieved, superlative most grieved)

  1. (literary) Very sad or distressed, sorely upset.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
      An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
      And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
      Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
      Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, []

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