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GRIEF

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grief substantiv

1. durere, mâhnire adâncă; grijă;

to come to grief a) a păţi ceva rău; a sfârşi prost; a fi la strâmtoare / la ananghie; b) a decădea; a scăpăta; c) a suferi un accident, a cădea (de pe cal, bicicletă etc.); d) a se abate din calea cea dreaptă; e) (despre planuri etc ) a da greş, a eşua, a se prăbuşi;

to bring to grief a duce în stare de mizerie;

to die of grief a muri de supărare.

2. supărare, motiv de nemulţumire.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

In an instant the poor dear fellow was overwhelmed with grief.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

If my grief were selfish, I did not know it to be so.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

‘You shall leave it in the hands of the police!’ I cried half-mad with grief and rage. ‘I shall have this matter probed to the bottom.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed torn by some mighty grief.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Your going forth is a grief to us as well as to yourself.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then when the king in his grief promised all she asked, she shut her eyes and died.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Grief may also be felt by a person with a serious, long-term illness or with a terminal illness.

(Grief, NCI Dictionary)

"Have you cried your grief away?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

To her infinite grief she found it was not.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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