Definition of "griev" [griev]

• A simplified spelling of grieve.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Antioch has fallen, but the citadel has not, and all of our men are so griev-ously beset that I think that at this moment they have been killed by the Turks."
• "Such carnality distressed Anglicans such as the Reverend Henry Bourne of Newcastle most griev-ously; in his eyes, Christmas was "a pretense for Drunkenness, and Rioting, and Wantonness.""
• "One minute he had been the one with all the griev - ances, the next Antonia had been spilling hers out all over him."