AGGRIEVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrieve mean? 

• AGGRIEVE (verb)
  The verb AGGRIEVE has 2 senses:

1. infringe on the rights of

2. cause to feel sorrow

  Familiarity information: AGGRIEVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRIEVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aggrieve    ... he / she / it aggrieves   
Past simple: aggrieved   
Past participle: aggrieved   
-ing form: aggrieving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infringe on the rights of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "aggrieve" is one way to...):

wrong (treat unjustly; do wrong to)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to feel sorrow

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

aggrieve; grieve

Context example:

his behavior grieves his mother

Hypernyms (to "aggrieve" is one way to...):

afflict (cause great unhappiness for; distress)

Cause:

grieve; sorrow (feel grief)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will aggrieve him

 Context examples 

Sir Claude, I think that what you have said does you little honor, and if my words aggrieve you I am ever ready to go deeper into the matter with you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never tried it before, and hang me if I ever do again! added John, with an aggrieved air.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“And if you could drink yourself in, old leather-head, you had been first baron of the realm,” cried the aggrieved Humphrey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)