Word Meanings - OVERSORROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.

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• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• AFFLICTEDNESS
  The state of being afflicted; affliction. Bp. Hall.
• AFFLICTER
  One who afflicts.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• GRIEVE; GREEVE
  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
• AFFLICT
  deject; ad + fligere to strike: cf. OF. aflit, afflict, p. p. Cf. 1. To strike or cast down; to overthrow. "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton. 2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to
• GRIEVER
  One who, or that which, grieves.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• INGRIEVE
  To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney.
• AGGRIEVE
  To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay. (more info) burden, injure, L. gravare