Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To distress; afflict.
- transitive verb To inflict an injury or injuries on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give pain or sorrow to; afflict; grieve.
- To bear hard upon; oppress or injure in one's rights; vex or harass, as by injustice: used chiefly or only in the passive.
- To mourn; lament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive
TO be aggrieved . - intransitive verb obsolete To grieve; to lament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To give pain or sorrow to; to
afflict ; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon;—now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved. - verb intransitive, obsolete To
grieve ; tolament .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to feel sorrow
- verb infringe on the rights of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And they will continue to deeply aggrieve, and hinder, those who held them, and loved them, so dearly.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010
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But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least.
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Such an overwhelming catastrophe would certainly aggrieve the French, for they are a kindly-disposed nation.
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There will undoubtedly be a reflexive tendency for many long-serving Democrats to use their newfound power to aggrieve what they perceive as previous abuses by the other party.
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We will not belong in a way that frees us of consequence; in the dawn of each new day we must aggrieve with our complicity.
We Merely Pay The Rent Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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We will not belong in a way that frees us of consequence; in the dawn of each new day we must aggrieve with our complicity.
Archive 2007-09-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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Not so for the small-minded largely tenured bullies that make up the professionally sensitive and always aggrieve advocacy wing of the NCA.
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Might not the Federation aggrieve the Klingons by impeding their expansion?
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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Might not the Federation aggrieve the Klingons by impeding their expansion?
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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You cannot libel the dead and I do not see how you can insult the dead, either; it is in the nature of an insult that it should aggrieve the target.
'Passion Play': An Exchange Hilden, Patricia 1999
karpkatamala commented on the word aggrieve
Over time, though, he found that he didn’t respect his fellow activists, who struck him as perpetually aggrieved and suspiciously underemployed. "They had no career, frequently, and no family, no completed education — nothing but ideology," he writes.
January 18, 2018