aggrieve

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict transitive
    — 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; some being whom it aggrieves.
  2. To grieve; to lament. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

aggrieves present,singular,third-person aggrieving participle,present aggrieved participle,past aggrieved past

词汇关系

衍生词
aggrievement aggriever

词源

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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