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Grief-stricken   /grif-strˈɪkən/   Listen
Grief-stricken

adjective
1.
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.  Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grieving, mourning, sorrowing.






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"Grief-stricken" Quotes from Famous Books



... to bear the sight of such sorrow, the sun hid his face behind a cloud, and the forest lay in shadow. The waters of the bay sobbed in their ebb and flow upon the sands, and the wind that sighed through the pines echoed the wail of the grief-stricken women: ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison

... A grief-stricken mother came in crying for her child, which she had not seen since the day of the disaster. A member of the relief committee was detailed on the case and he found the baby. The same day, while walking on the street, he saw a woman carrying a baby in a pillow slip thrown ...
— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

... told his story, a little brokenly. The group of men who listened were used to hardy deeds. They had seen Nature demand her toll of death again and again in the wilderness. And yet as they sat looking at the young fellow with his gray eyes shocked and grief-stricken and perceived his boyish idolatry of Charlie Tuck, something like moisture shone in their eyes. They shook hands with Jim when he had finished, silently for the most ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... doctor looked stealthily from the recumbent figure to the tall and slender woman standing absorbed and grief-stricken beside the bed. The likeness was as evident to him as it had been, in the winter, ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... throng of grief-stricken friends who came to the little cottage that day, but two men knew the ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon


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