Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#AGGRIEVECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#AGGRIEVE agreven, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#AGGRIEVE agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#AGGRIEVE gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːv/Category:English 2-syllable words#AGGRIEVECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AGGRIEVE

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• Rhymes: -iːvCategory:Rhymes:English/iːv#AGGRIEVECategory:Rhymes:English/iːv/2 syllables#AGGRIEVE

Verb

aggrieve (third-person singular simple present aggrieves, present participle aggrieving, simple past and past participle aggrieved)Category:English lemmas#AGGRIEVECategory:English verbs#AGGRIEVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AGGRIEVECategory:Pages with entries#AGGRIEVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#AGGRIEVE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#AGGRIEVE) To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hurt, Thesaurus:sadden

   • 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 58:

     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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2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#AGGRIEVE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#AGGRIEVE) To grieve; to lament.

   Synonyms: mourn, rue; see also Thesaurus:be sad

References

• “aggrieve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.