grieved

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But his eyes gave the story away--grieved, mortified, indignant.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to be sorrowful; distress: It grieves me to see you in such pain.
  2. transitive verb To mourn or sorrow for: We grieved the death of our pastor.
  3. transitive verb Usage Problem To file an official or formal grievance on account of (an actual or perceived injustice).

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  • He paused, confused and grieved--saying, as he turned back the vase, 'Ah me! —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
  • She felt grieved, and her lonely, unloved position rose up before her in more bitterness and more fear than it was wont to do. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • The Queen of Erebus grieved, and changed the informer into an accursed bird, and turned his head, sprinkled with the waters of Phlegethon,[69] into a beak, and feathers, and great eyes. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • I thought that you were long ago safe among the mountains; and despairing of finding you, I was on my way down to any port I could reach on the coast, from whence I could escape from this unhappy country, regretting that I should probably see you no more; and almost as much grieved--I must confess the fact--to leave all my treasures behind me, to rot, or be eaten by the ants, as I had no means of transporting them I thought, doctor, that you were determined to remain with your patients till they recovered," I remarked Alack, alack! —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
  • I regret deeply to say this, and I am grieved--greatly grieved. —  Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land
 

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