Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict

    kränken, verletzen

    cause to feel sorrow

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

Examples

4 sentences
  1. She has every reason to feel aggrieved.

    deSie hat allen Grund zum Unmut.

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  2. It aggrieved her much that she could not go.

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  3. My incompetence aggrieves me.

    ruМеня угнетает моя некомпетентность.

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  4. I felt fine this morning until I noticed what they'd done to me. I'm feeling so aggrieved.

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Translations

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Deutsch
By meaning 1
to give pain or sorrow to, to afflict, to oppress:

Origin

From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, i

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.

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Forms

aggrieves, aggrieving, aggrieved, aggrieved
Base formaggrieve · to aggrieve
3rd person singularaggrieves
Present participleaggrieving
Past simpleaggrieved
Past participleaggrieved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyaggrieve
he, she, itaggrieves

Past simpleLesson

all personsaggrieved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave aggrieved
he, she, ithas aggrieved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill aggrieve

Synonyms

57 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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