Meaning

2 senses

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

Origin

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).

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Forms

grames, graming, gramed, gramed

regular · Lesson

Base formgrame · to grame
3rd person singulargrames
Present participlegraming
Past simplegramed
Past participlegramed

Tenses

grame · gramed · will grame · have gramed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrame
he, she, itgrames

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gramed
he, she, ithas gramed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grame

Past simpleLesson

all personsgramed

Synonyms

59 synonyms
(obsolete)To vex:angerB1crossA2gallB1getA1incenseB2offendB2outrageB2provokeC1steamB1plagueC1harassC1harrowB2tormentC1troubleB1

Word family

1 related words
RelatedgramA2

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grainB2grainygramA2grammarA1grammariangrammatical

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