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aggrieve

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈɡɹiːv/

Definition of aggrieve

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
    “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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verb

  1. (transitive)To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
    “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.”
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To grieve; to lament.

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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.

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