Explore Aggrieve through 2 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like wrong or grieve. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Aggrieve meaning
- To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
- To grieve; to lament.
Using Aggrieve
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict | To grieve; to lament.
- Useful related words include: wrong, grieve, afflict.
Context around Aggrieve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aggrieve
- In this selection, "aggrieve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oppress stand out and add context to how "aggrieve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include injure oppress aggrieve and vilify and likely only aggrieve already alienated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aggrieve" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aggrieve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Faron Ellis, a political scientist and pollster at Lethbridge College, said the question of representation on the media panel is something that will likely only aggrieve already alienated westerners. (29 words)
Lundy's article, Key said in the indictment, "was intended to injure, oppress, aggrieve, and vilify the good name, fame, credit & reputation of the Magistrates and constables" of Washington. (29 words)
Faron Ellis, a political scientist and pollster at Lethbridge College, said the question of representation on the media panel is something that will likely only aggrieve already alienated westerners. (29 words)
Lundy's article, Key said in the indictment, "was intended to injure, oppress, aggrieve, and vilify the good name, fame, credit & reputation of the Magistrates and constables" of Washington. (29 words)
Example sentences (2)
Faron Ellis, a political scientist and pollster at Lethbridge College, said the question of representation on the media panel is something that will likely only aggrieve already alienated westerners.
Lundy's article, Key said in the indictment, "was intended to injure, oppress, aggrieve, and vilify the good name, fame, credit & reputation of the Magistrates and constables" of Washington.