Word Meanings - AGGRIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) burden, injure, L. gravare

Additional info about word: AGGRIEVE

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. (more info) burden, injure, L. gravare to weigh down, fr. gravis heavy. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AGGRIEVE)

• Oppress
• Burden
• grind
• weigh down
• persecute
• aggrieve
• maltreat
• abuse
• overbear
• constrain
• Pain Hurt
• grieve
• afflict
• torment
• rack
• agonize
• trouble
• torture
• annoy
• distress

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AGGRIEVE)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to AGGRIEVE)

• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• GRINDLET
  A small drain.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• GRINDINGLY
  In a grinding manner.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.