Aggrieve
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict transitive
"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 cause to feel sorrow wordnet
- 3 To grieve; to lament. intransitive, obsolete
- 4 infringe on the rights of wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
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.