grief

Suffering, hardship.countableuncountable

• The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.

Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.countableuncountable

• She was worn out from so much grief.
• The betrayal caused Jeff grief.

A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.countable

• Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vInternet

• While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articu