wrong

wrong vb Wrong, oppress, persecute, aggrieve can mean to inflict injury upon a person without just cause or in an outrageous manner.

One wrongs another who injures him by unjustifiably depriving him of his property or his good name or by violating something he holds sacred

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receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man—2 Cor 7:2

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such an air of wronged nobility— Cheever

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One oppresses another who inhumanely lays upon him burdens too heavy to be endured or exacts of him more than he can possibly perform

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how reviving to the spirits of just men long oppressed, when God into the hands of their deliverer puts invincible might— Milton

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may have missed the tender love of her parents ... or been oppressed by her elderly uncle— Cheever

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One persecutes another who relentlessly or unremittingly subjects him to annoyance or suffering

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if a boy has abnormal mental powers in some direction, combined with poor physique and great nervousness, he . . . may be so persecuted [by normal boys] as to be driven mad— Russell

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One aggrieves another or, more often, causes him to be or to feel aggrieved who by wronging, oppressing, or persecuting him gives him ground for protest

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several nations were aggrieved by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

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so the bargain stood: they broke it, and he felt himself aggrieved— Browning

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Analogous words: *abuse, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, outrage: *injure, harm, hurt