understand grief

Frequency: 8.115.9 per million words

to comprehend the nature of someone's sadness

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Examples (10)

  • She understood my grief because she too had lost a child.
  • It's hard for others to truly understand the grief of losing a parent.
  • Through his work as a counselor, he has come to understand grief in all its forms.
  • We may never fully understand a nation's grief after such a tragedy.
  • Reading stories from others helped me understand my own grief and feel less alone.
  • Only someone who has experienced a similar loss can understand the depth of her grief.
  • He thought he understood grief, but his own recent loss showed him he knew nothing.
  • The support group is a safe space for people who understand each other's grief.
  • To understand his friend's grief, he simply sat with him in silence.
  • As a society, we are slowly learning to better understand and talk about grief.