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Aggrieve

//əˈɡɹiːv// verb

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Verb

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

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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