griefing
- 1Present participle and gerund of grief.
He was suspended for griefing teammates during ranked games.
Griefing ruins the experience for everyone trying to play fairly.
Note
Online gaming turned the old noun of sorrow into a verb: to grief is to cause other players grief on purpose, spoiling their enjoyment. The -ing form works as a progressive (he was griefing teammates) and as a gerund naming the practice (griefing ruins the match), and it takes a direct object. It differs from cheating in method, because griefers exploit the game's own mechanics, often through destruction or vandalism, rather than using cheats.
griefing 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 → griefing: add -ing
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with griefing, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.