griefed
- 1Simple past and past participle of grief.
A group of trolls griefed the server by smashing everyone's builds overnight.
The streamer was repeatedly griefed during the final round of the tournament.
Note
A gamer's past tense, made by adding a regular -ed to grief. That word was long a noun for suffering and sorrow before online play turned it into a verb for harassing other players. One spelling does both jobs: the active past (they griefed the lobby) and the passive or perfect (was griefed, had griefed). The passive comes naturally, because the targeted player is often the point of the sentence.
griefed is a form of grief
grief, verb: To deliberately harass other players in an online game to spoil their enjoyment, often by exploiting game features to destroy or vandalize. Full entry
- Spelling
- grief → griefed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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