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How to pronounce “grief”
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Pronunciation guide for grief
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of grief with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Art that transforms cities into playgrounds of the imagination
turned out to write their grief, their pain, their hope,
- Definition summary
- Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce grief
Art that transforms cities into playgrounds of the imagination

turned out to write their grief, their pain, their hope,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “grief”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
- (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- [Verb]
- (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism. [from late 1990s]
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