different between grieve vs torture

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /??i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin grav?, grav?re, from adjective gravis (“grave”).

Verb

grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)

1. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.

   • Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

   • Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.

2. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

   to grieve one's fate

3. (intransitive) To experience grief.
4. (transitive, archaic) To harm.
5. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
   • 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:

     Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.

Derived terms

• begrieve
• grieved
• griever
• grievingly

Related terms

• grievance
• grievous
• grief

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German gr?ve, grâve,related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ?er?fa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.

Noun

grieve (plural grieves)

1. (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.

Derived terms

• grieveship

Anagrams

• regive

Old French

Verb

grieve

1. third-person singular present indicative of grever

English

Etymology

From Middle English torture, from Old French torture, from Late Latin tort?ra (“a twisting, writhing, of bodily pain, a griping colic;” in Middle Latin “pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of persuasion, torture”), from Latin tortus (whence also tort), past participle of torquere (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??t???(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)
• Homophone: torcher
• Hyphenation: tor?ture

Noun

torture (countable and uncountable, plural tortures)

1. intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony

2. (chiefly literary) the "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships

   Coventry City midfielder Josh Ruffels described his 11 months out injured as 'absolute torture' after the goalless draw with Derby County Under-21s. ([3])

3. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment

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Translations

Verb

torture (third-person singular simple present tortures, present participle torturing, simple past and past participle tortured)

1. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• torture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• torture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• torture at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• trouter, tutorer

Asturian

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of torturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of torturar

French

Etymology

From Late Latin tort?ra, from Latin tortus, from torque?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.ty?/
• Rhymes: -y?
• Homophones: torturent, tortures

Noun

torture f (plural tortures)

1. torture

   • With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and gave himself torture to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

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Descendants

• ? Swedish: tortyr c

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular present indicative of torturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of torturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of torturer
5. second-person singular imperative of torturer

Further reading

• “torture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

torture f

1. plural of tortura

Anagrams

• rotture, rutterò, ruttore

Latin

Participle

tort?re

1. vocative masculine singular of tort?rus

Portuguese

Verb

torture

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of torturar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of torturar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of torturar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of torturar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to??tu?e/, [t?o??t?u.?e]

Verb

torture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of torturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of torturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of torturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of torturar.