Aggrieve

Definitions: Aggrieve

Aggrieve

Verb

1. Infringe on the rights of; in law.

2. Break the heart of; cause to feel sorrow.

Date "aggrieve" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Synonym: Aggrieve

Synonym: grieve (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexpedience	Wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest.
Pain	Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aggrieve

English words defined with "aggrieve": Aggrieving ♦ To pain one's self. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aggrieve": Sapphics. (references)

Etymologies containing "aggrieve": Aggrievance. (references)

"Aggrieve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aggrieve" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "aggrieve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hidhëroj (afflict, chagrin, deject, disappoint, discompose, distress, embitter, grieve, make miserable, make trouble), fyej (affront, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate). (various references)

Arabic		‏حزن (afflict, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), ‏ضايق (annoy, bully, distress, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, rattle, saddle, torment), ‏إضطهد (grind, oppress, persecute, tyrannize, work against), ‏ظلم (abuse, darken, eclipse, extortion, gloom, grind, grow dark, inequality, inequity, iniquity, injustice, oppress, oppression, shadow, tyrannize, unfairness, wrong). (various references)

Bulgarian		огорчавам (afflict, embitter, envenom, exacerbate, gall, grieve, lacerate, mortify, pain), обиждам (abuse, affront, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong). (various references)

Chinese		悲痛 (Aggrieved, Aggrieving). (various references)

Czech		ukřivdit (wrong), poškodit (corrupt, damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice, scar, violate). (various references)

Farsi		غمگین کردن (Grieve, Sadden, Sorrow), جوروجفاکردن , ازردن (Afflict, Ail, Annoy, Distaste, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar). (various references)

French		affliger, déranger, chagriner. (various references)

German		kränken (abuse, annoy, grieve, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, slight, to aggrieve, to grieve, to mortify, vex, worry, wound). (various references)

Greek		καταπιέζω (depress, oppress, overwhelm), θλίβω (afflict, chagrin, compress, grieve, grieve for). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ציק (aggravate, ail, annoy, harass, irk, molest, nag, persecute, pester, shove around, tease, torment, vex), ל�"כא (fight down, oppress, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress). (various references)

Hungarian		jogaiban sért (to aggrieve), bosszant (aggravate, annoy, badger, ballyrag, bullyrag, chagrin, fret, irk, miff, peeve, rile, to aggravate, to aggrieve, to anger, to annoy, to ballyrag, to be on to sy, to chagrin, to displease, to fret, to gall, to harass, to inflict, to irk, to peeve, to plague, to provoke, to rile, to roil, to spite, to twit, to vex, twit, vex). (various references)

Indonesian		menyakitkan hati (gall). (various references)

Italian		affliggere (afflict, ail, distress, fret, grieve, irk, pain, plague, scourge, trouble), addolorare (ail, be sorry, grieve, pain). (various references)

Manx		seaghnaghey (afflict, distress, grieve, trouble). (various references)

Pig Latin		aggrieveay

Portuguese		afligir (afflict, ail, annoy, chagrin, distress, fret, gall, grieve, lacerated, oppress, pain, plague, press, sadden, torment, vex, weigh, worry), ofender (abuse, affront, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displeasing, grieve, harmful, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscarriage, offend, outrageous, shock, stab), desgostar (chagrin, disappoint, disgust, disrepair, lump sum). (various references)

Romanian		nedreptãţi (harm, wrong), mâhni (afflict, deject, desolate, distress, grieve, pain, pique, sadden), jigni (cut, grate, Harrow, hit, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, pique, touch, vex, wrong), îndurera (afflict, distress, grieve, kill, pain). (various references)

Russian		огорчать (afflict, distress, grieve), обижать (huff, hurt, mortify, offend, offending). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		učiniti nažao, ožalostiti (afflict, bereave, distress, grieve). (various references)

Spanish		agraviar (affront, injure, wrong), oprimir (actuate, compress, grasp, grind, grind down, hold down, keep down, oppress, overburden, press, push, squeeze, suppress, to queeze), ofender (abuse, affront, be wrong, displease, give offence, give offense, hurt, hurt one's feelings, injure, insult, miff, offend, slight). (various references)

Swedish		plåga (afflict, agonize, agony, ail, bedevil, bother, crucify, curse, distress, excruciate, excruciation, fret, gall, harass, Harrow, Harry, infliction, jar, pain, pang, persecute, pester, pinch, plague, rack, ride, scourge, tear, terror, torment, torture, worry, wring). (various references)

Turkish		rencide etmek (hurt, offend, rasp), mağdur etmek, kederlendirmek (cause sorrow, deject, griveve), incitmek (cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), üzmek (affect, afflict, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Ukranian		засмучувати (afflict, aggravate, chagrin, chill, discompose, dishearten, dispirit, grieve, oppress, rue, sadden, unsettle, upset), пригнічувати (cast down, deject, depress, downcast, flatten, hold down, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke). (various references)

Welsh		tramgwyddo (affront, offend, stumble, take offence), blino (ail, annoy, bore, bother, get tired, tire, trouble, vex, weary). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aggravare. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	agrever. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aggrieve": aggrieved, aggrievedly, aggrievement, aggrievements, aggrieves. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aggrieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aggreive, agreve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aggrieve" (pronounced ugrē"v)
4	-g r ē" v	greave, grieve.
3	-r ē" v	reave, Reeve, reprieve, retrieve.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-r-v"
	-2 letters: greave, greige, grieve, raggee, regave, reggae, regive, rivage, veggie.
	-3 letters: aerie, agger, aggie, agree, aiver, eager, eagre, eggar, egger, gager, giver, grave, ragee, reave, reive, vegie, verge, virga.
	-4 letters: agee, ager, aver, eave, eger, ever, gage, gave, gear, giga, give, gree, grig, rage, ragi, rave, rive, vagi, vair, veer, vera, vier, viga.
	-5 letters: age, air, are, ave, ear, egg, era, ere, erg, eve, gae, gag, gar, gee, gie, gig, ire, rag, ree, reg, rei, rev, ria, rig, var, vee, veg, via, vie, vig.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-r-v"
	+1 letter: aggrieved, aggrieves.
	+2 letters: aggressive, leveraging.
	+3 letters: aggregative, aggrievedly, reengraving, segregative.
	+4 letters: aggressively, aggrievement, exaggerative, revegetating, unaggressive.
	+5 letters: agglomerative, aggregatively, aggrievements, nonaggressive.
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