un-grieve
English
Etymology
un- + grieve
Alternative forms
- ungrieve
Verb
un-grieve (third-person singular simple present un-grieves, present participle un-grieving, simple past and past participle un-grieved)
- To stop or cause to stop grieving because the cause of grief is removed.
- 2012, Dr. Joseph Luxum, War in a Bottle:
- God was deeply grieved and there was no one to un-grieve Him quickly enough.
- 2014, John Corey Whaley, Noggin:
- They've grieved you for years and now they're being asked to un-grieve you, and, sadly, that just isn't something that very many people understand because, well, it's never been a possibility before now.
- 2017, W. Franklin Lattimore, Behind the Darkness:
- “Mind telling me what you were doing?” “I needed to un-grieve God.”