aggrieve
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aggrieve
- /əˈɡɹiːv/
Rhymes with -iːv
Where it comes from
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.
verb aggrieves · aggrieving · aggrieved
- 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; so
- To grieve; to lament.
