grief : Idioms & Phrases


grief-stricken

  • adjective satellite sorrowful through loss or deprivation
    mourning; sorrowing; grieving; bereft; bereaved.
    • bereft of hope
WordNet

To come to grief

  • to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. Colloq.
Webster 1913