aggrieves
aggrieves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aggrieve.
Meaning of aggrieve
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.
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- Aggrieves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aggrieve.
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