aggrieve

/ə'gri:v/

Thân thiện

His actions aggrieve his family.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To cause grief, sorrow, or distress to someone: To make someone feel sad, hurt, or troubled.
   • To infringe upon or violate the rights of someone: To treat someone unfairly or unjustly, often in a legal or formal context.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (cause sorrow):
  • The news of the defeat will aggrieve the entire nation.
  • It aggrieved her deeply to see the old building demolished.
• Verb (infringe rights):
  • The new policy was seen to aggrieve the minority shareholders.
  • Citizens felt aggrieved by the government's arbitrary actions.

Advanced Usage

• To be aggrieved: This is a common passive construction meaning to feel wronged or offended.
  • She felt deeply aggrieved by his harsh criticism.
• An aggrieved party: A legal term for a person or group whose rights have been violated.
  • The aggrieved party filed a formal complaint with the authorities.

Variants and Related Words

• Aggrieved (adjective): Feeling resentment due to unfair treatment.
  • He spoke in an aggrieved tone about the decision.
• Aggrievance (noun, rare): The state of being aggrieved; a grievance.

Synonyms

• Distress: To cause anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
• Wrong: To treat unjustly or harm.
• Oppress: To burden with cruel or unjust impositions.

Related Phrases

• To bear a grievance: To hold onto a feeling of being wronged.
• To have a grievance against: To have a specific complaint about unfair treatment by someone.

Related Idioms

• To nurse a grievance: To dwell on a feeling of having been wronged.
  • He nursed his grievance for years, refusing to forgive.

Học thuật

Verb

1. cause to feel sorrow
   • his behavior grieves his mother
2. infringe on the rights of

Từ đồng nghĩa

• grieve