noun. The act of aggravating or the state of being aggravated.

noun. A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble.

noun. Exasperation.

noun. Increase of the weight, intensity, heinousness, or severity of anything; the act of making worse; addition, or that which is added, to anything evil or improper: as, an aggravation of pain, grief, crime, etc.

noun. Exaggeration, as in a pictorial representation or in a statement of facts; heightened description.

noun. Provocation; irritation.

noun. In Rom. canon law, a censure, threatening excommunication after disregard of three admonitions.

noun. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

noun. Exaggerated representation.

noun. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

noun. Provocation; irritation.

noun. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

noun. Exaggerated representation.

noun. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

noun. an exasperated feeling of annoyance

noun. action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse

noun. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment

"If, in fact, he is found guilty he moves on to the penalty phase and my guess would be, and again the lawyers can chime in, is that his previous record at that point would come in as a factor in what they call aggravation that the prosecution would present."

aggravate  

annoyance  chafe  intensification  vexation  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

affront  alleviation  disillusionment  enormity  extenuation  

accelerando  acceleration  adverse circumstances  adversity  affliction