different between repine vs grieve

English

Etymology

Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- +? pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from p?nen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English p?nian), which may be related.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?p?n?, IPA^(key): /???pa?n/
• (General American) enPR: r?p?n?, IPA^(key): /???pa?n/, /??-/
• Hyphenation: re?pine

Verb

repine (third-person singular simple present repines, present participle repining, simple past and past participle repined)

1. (transitive) To fail; to wane.
2. (intransitive, now literary) To complain; to regret. [from early 16th c.]

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• repyne (obsolete, 16th century)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “†re?pine, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “repine, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• “repine, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009
• “repine, v.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2009

Anagrams

• Priene, perine

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