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grievance adj. 1 wrong, ill, injustice, disservice, unfairness, injury,
damage, harm, outrage, affront, indignity, hardship, calamity:
I had to listen to details of every grievance she had ever
suffered. 2 complaint, objection, charge, plaint, allegation,
grudge, Colloq gripe, bone to pick, Brit crow to pluck, Slang
beef: Please register all your grievances at the office next
door.
grieve v. 1 mourn, bemoan, lament, regret, rue, deplore, bewail, mope,
eat one's heart out: Sylvia is still grieving over the loss of
her husband. 2 weep, cry, mourn, moan, keen, suffer, sorrow;
shed tears, complain: Go in and try to comfort the grieving
widow.
grievous adj. 1 severe, heavy, painful, grave, serious, distressing,
harmful; damaging, hurtful, acute, wounding: The church
buildings suffered grievous damage from the storm. He was
charged with causing grievous bodily harm. 2 egregious, awful,
flagrant, terrible, outrageous, heinous, dreadful, atrocious,
monstrous, appalling, shocking, deplorable, calamitous,
lamentable, intolerable, shameful, unbearable: Missing that
catch was a grievous error.
grim adj. 1 stern, severe, unrelenting, resolute, uncompromising,
unyielding, inflexible, adamant, stony, iron, unbending, firm,
intractable, unflinching, unmoving, unmoved, implacable,
inexorable, determined, steadfast, (dead) set, fixed, decided,
obstinate, headstrong, stubborn, obdurate, dogged, unwavering:
By controlling the purse strings, she kept a grim hold over the
family. 2 forbidding, formidable, harsh, ferocious, fierce,
cruel, savage, merciless, heartless, ruthless, pitiless,
vicious, brutal, brutish, feral, inhuman, fiendish, violent,
bloodthirsty, murderous, homicidal, fell: A grim pack of
howling wolves loped after our sledge. 3 dire, dreadful,
ghastly, awful, frightful, frightening, sinister, hideous,
horrid, horrific, horrible, horrendous, terrible, terrifying,
terrific, harrowing, dread, alarming, appalling, grotesque,
gruesome, eerie, macabre, flagitious, heinous, evil, wicked,
iniquitous, atrocious, monstrous: Before me appeared the
ghostly apparition of the Grim Reaper.
grime n. dirt, filth, soot, mud, muck, slime, scum: The lad began to