verb
Meaning 1
To cause grief to, to vex or pain; to associate with vexation or pain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Examples
- 1998, Annabel M. Patterson (editor), The trial of Nicholas Throckmorton (apparently derived from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577), I am sorry to engrieve any other man's doings, but it serveth me for a piece of my defence, and therefore I wish that no man should gather evil of it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: distress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset, afflict, lacerate, plague, atray, cag, grame, harass, harrow, harry, torment, trouble, vex, rend, wring
Antonyms: none provided