aggrieve
/əˈɡɹiːv/
aggrieve verb: to cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict.
Verb
aggrieve (third-person singular simple present aggrieves, present participle aggrieving, simple past and past participle 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...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
- To grieve; to lament.
aggrieve meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
aggrieve in Urdu
- to aggrieve, torment
- ستانا satānā
aggrieve in Bengali
- কষ্ট দেওয়া
aggrieve in Kannada
- ಬಿರುಬುಗೊಳ್, ಬೆದೆಗುದಿಗೊಳ್
Synonyms of aggrieve
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Forms of aggrieve
| third-person singular present | aggrieves |
|---|---|
| present participle | aggrieving |
| past participle | aggrieved |
| past | aggrieved |
Origin of aggrieve
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.
Words formed from aggrieve
Words that rhyme with aggrieve
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- eve
- grieve
- Kharkiv
- breve
- conceive
- naive
- neve
- Pishchiv
- weave
- keeve
- Neave
- Piskiv
- reeve
- screeve
- skeeve
- beleave
- French leave
- greave
- interweave
- perceive
- reave
- seave
- sheave
- shrieve
- sleave
- steeve
- steve
- take French leave
- Abib
- beeve
- deceive
- dreve
- Dutch leave
- eave
- gneeve
- khedive
- nieve
- peeve
- preconceive
- rebelieve
- reperceive
- thieve
- transceive
- we've
- Yves
Questions about aggrieve
- What does aggrieve mean?
- Aggrieve means to cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict.
- What is aggrieve in Urdu?
- Aggrieve in Urdu is ستانا (satānā). See Aggrieve meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is aggrieve?
- Aggrieve is a verb.
- How do you pronounce aggrieve?
- Aggrieve is pronounced /əˈɡɹiːv/.
- What is the past tense of aggrieve?
- The past tense of aggrieve is aggrieved.
Words near aggrieve in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aggrieve (page history and authors); ستانا (Urdu) (page history and authors); aggrieve (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aggrieve (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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