n.
  - intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death. ▸an instance or cause of intense sorrow. 
- informal trouble or annoyance.
Phrase
  
    - come to grief
 have an accident; meet with disaster.
- good grief!
 an exclamation of surprise or alarm.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. grief, from grever (see grieve1).