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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)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to lament.

Questions about aggrieves

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

Words near aggrieves in the dictionary

  1. aggrievedness
  2. aggrievement
  3. aggrievements
  4. aggriever
  5. aggrievers
  6. aggrieves
  7. aggrieving
  8. aggro
  9. aggroed
  10. aggroes
  11. aggroing

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