AGGRIEVE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

2.
v.

To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]


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