aggrieves

present tense third-person singular of aggrieve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrieves
Verb
  • For example, obesity induces chronic fat inflammation, which subsequently leads to systemic inflammation and perturbs the normal systemic metabolism.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The algorithm next perturbs one of the qubits used to carry out those operations.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • New York City’s child welfare agency routinely abuses its emergency power to take children from their parents without a court order, creating lifelong consequences for families, a new class-action lawsuit seeking to end the practice alleged Thursday.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • People deserve a government that watches out for our people’s best interests, not one that abuses its powers and sells us to the highest bidder.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • House of the Dragon’s season-three premiere upsets the conventional wisdom.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • According to Harvard Health, travel disrupts the body’s natural rhythms — time changes, altered eating schedules, poor sleep — which upsets digestion, especially in people with already-sensitive guts.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley after Jade Cargill torments Ripley.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Phil, a spiteful rancher who torments his brother's (Jesse Plemons) new wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her sensitive teenage son, Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), against the backdrop of 1920s Montana.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • One big question now, Thomas says, is whether a tie-up with a paragon of fast-fashion alienates Everlane's current clientele — or sways Shein shoppers to trade up.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 22 May 2026
  • Perfection alienates; wrongness invites.
    Andrey Mir, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The retrospection tortures her.
    Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Later, in one of the movie's most satisfying scenes, Millie locks Andrew in the attic and tortures him by loudly smashing each plate.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • What is the pettiest thing that annoys you during a race weekend?
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • One of the more common ways bear encounters escalate is when an off-leash dog runs toward a bear, annoys it, and then comes sprinting back to its owner with an angry predator in pursuit.
    Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by a virus that primarily and most severely afflicts children.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • Consider osteoarthritis, which afflicts roughly 33 million Americans by gradually wearing down cartilage in the joints.
    Bryan T. Kelly, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Aggrieves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieves. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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