Aggravate(v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
Aggravate(v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
Aggravate(v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
Aggravate(v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
Aggravated(imp. & p. p.) of Aggravate
Aggravating(a.) Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
Aggravating(a.) Exasperating; provoking; irritating.
Aggravating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggravate
Aggravatingly(adv.) In an aggravating manner.
Aggravation(n.) 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.
Aggravation(n.) Exaggerated representation.
Aggravation(n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Aggravation(n.) Provocation; irritation.
Aggravative(a.) Tending to aggravate.
Aggravative(n.) That which aggravates.
Words within aggravation