| 单词 | aggrieve |
| 释义 | aggrieve (once / 2590 pages) 1v 2v To aggrieve someone is a lousy thing to do. Not sure why? See the "grieve" in there, and you'll see why. It means to bring someone sorrow. Which one of us is the aggrieved party? Well, considering it was you who let your pigs run roughshod over my lawn, I think it's clear that it's you who aggrieved me. Or, to put it another way, I've been aggrieved by you and your horrible hogs. When you're talking about interpersonal issues, to aggrieve someone is to hurt their feelings, but in the legal sense, it means something slightly different: it's not feelings that are hurt when one is aggrieved, but one's rights. WORD FAMILYaggrieve: aggrieved, aggrieves, aggrieving USAGE EXAMPLESDonald Trump’s bombastic campaign seemed like the terminal stage of aggrieved American machismo rather than simply the terminal stage of America. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) It’s usually a bad idea, even with the past year’s excess supply of aggrieved minority shareholders. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) Decades later, an aggrieved father opened “The Godfather” with his own singular pledge of allegiance: “I believe in America.” New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 v cause to feel sorrow 2Syn|Hyper grieve afflict cause great unhappiness for; distress v infringe on the rights of Hyper wrong treat unjustly; do wrong to |
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