aggrieve
English
Etymology
From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɡɹiːv/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːv
Verb
aggrieve (third-person singular simple present aggrieves, present participle aggrieving, simple past and past participle aggrieved)
- (transitive) To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
- 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka:
- Right is positive; wrong is negative—is merely the negation of right; as cold is the negation of heat—darkness of light. That a thing may be wrong, it is necessary that there be some other thing in relation to which it is wrong—some condition which it fails to satisfy; some law which it violates; some being whom it aggrieves.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to lament.
Usage notes
Now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved.
Translations
to give pain or sorrow to, to afflict, to oppress
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to grieve, to lament
References
- aggrieve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913