grame

verb

1. To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

   obsolete, transitive

   For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.

   Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.

2. To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

   intransitive, obsolete

   The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

Where it comes from

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”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry grame (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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