Difference between Sorrow and Grieve

What is the difference between Sorrow and Grieve?

Sorrow as a noun is unhappiness, woe while Grieve as a noun is a governor of a town or province.

Sorrow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: unhappiness, woe An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To feel or express grief.

Example sentence: I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Grieve

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A governor of a town or province.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause sorrow or distress.To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.To experience grief.To harm.To submit or file a grievance.

Example sentence: Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

We hope you now know whether to use Sorrow or Grieve in your sentence.

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