Grieve and Try

Grieve

Grieve verb - To feel deep sadness or mental pain.

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Try and grieve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Grieve".

Nearby Words: grievous, grievance, grief, grieving

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Grieve and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grieve" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

name	grieve name	try name
death	grieve death	try death

While the surviving Amis grieve and try to hold each other together, Valjean must find a way to face his past and protect them from the authorities, including a still alive and increasingly unstable Javert.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Les Misérables
When their family members die, other men try to marry them to take control of their inheritance without even giving them the chance to grieve.

Source: Deconstructed Trope / A Song of Ice and Fire
If they really can't remove a death, they might try to remove emotional depth from it, so somebody doesn't seem to grieve that much over their best friend/lover dying—so now you're encouraged to stifle your emotions.

Source: Bowdlerise

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