aggrieving

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

   Synonyms:

   ache, afflict, agonize, anguish, dere, excruciate, hurt, irritate, pang, pine

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

   Synonyms:

   mourn, rue, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven