Definition of "grievers" [grievers]

• Plural form of griever. (noun)

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• "Chronic grievers seem less confident about their coping abilities and more dependent on the relationship to the deceased."
• "Resilient grievers appear better equipped to accept death as a fact of life and tend to have a more positive worldview."
• "In 1944, Erich Lindemann, a psychiatrist at Mass General, picked up on more peculiar deviations when he observed that some grievers feverishly busied themselves with activities formerly carried out by the deceased, or even acquired symptoms of the same illness that had felled their loved one."