transitive verb. To make worse or more troublesome.

transitive verb. To annoy or exasperate: synonym: annoy.

Literally, to add weight to or upon; increase the amount, quantity, or force of; make heavier by added quantity or burden.

To make more grave or heavy; increase the weight or pressure of; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: as, to aggravate guilt or crime, the evils or annoyances of life, etc.

To exaggerate; give coloring to in description; give an exaggerated representation of: as, to aggravate circumstances.

To provoke; irritate; tease.

Synonyms To heighten, raise, increase, magnify; overstate. See list under exaggerate.

transitive verb. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

transitive verb. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

transitive verb. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate.

transitive verb. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

verb. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

verb. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — William Paley.

verb. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

verb. make worse

verb. exasperate or irritate

"The word aggravate annoys him, so say irritate instead?"

irritate  

aggravation  

anger  

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accelerate  agent provocateur  aggrandize  alienate  amplify  

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