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grieve

verb as in upset, distress someone

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"I am profoundly grieved at the loss of this dedicated and gallant fireman," Andy Yeung, director of the fire service said in a statement.

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After a loss, the grieving Everyman finds no option but to keep living—he is, as one character says, “just waiting to see what we’ve been left here for.”

"Now the only option for the victims' families is to cry, be unhappy and grieve," Mr Nagolia says.

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The book’s version of him is pretty much the same, perhaps because O’Farrell doesn’t reveal that this fictional grieving character is Shakespeare until the last page.

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As hard as it is, especially for me coming to terms with losing a relative who you love dearly and you're very close to, having not fully grieved.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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