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- Dictionaryaggravate/ˈaɡrəveɪt/
verb
- 1. make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious: "military action would only aggravate the situation" Similar Opposite
- 2. annoy or exasperate. informal Similar Opposite
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AGGRAVATE definition: 1. to make a bad situation worse: 2. to make a disease worse: 3. to annoy someone: . Learn more.
The meaning of AGGRAVATE is to make (something) worse, more serious, or more severe : to intensify (something) unpleasantly. How to use aggravate in a sentence. Common Uses of Aggravate, Aggravation, and Aggravating: Usage Guide
AGGRAVATE meaning: 1. to make a bad situation worse: 2. to make a disease worse: 3. to annoy someone: . Learn more.
To aggravate is to make more serious or more grave: to aggravate a danger, an offense, a wound. To intensify is perceptibly to increase intensity, force, energy, vividness, etc.: to intensify heat, color, rage.
Aggravate definition: to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome. See examples of AGGRAVATE used in a sentence.
Aggravate means to make something worse, and irritate is to annoy. But if you use aggravate to mean "annoy," no one will notice.
1. To make worse or more troublesome: aggravate political tensions; aggravate a medical condition. 2. To annoy or exasperate: The child's whining aggravated me. See Synonyms at annoy. [Latin aggravāre, aggravāt- : ad-, ad- + gravāre, to burden (from gravis, heavy; see g w erə- in Indo-European roots).] ag′gra·vat′ing·ly adv. ag′gra·va′tive adj.
aggravate something to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse synonym worsen. Pollution can aggravate asthma. Military intervention will only aggravate the conflict even further.
aggravate meaning, definition, what is aggravate: to make a bad situation, an illness, or ...: Learn more.
AGGRAVATE definition: 1. to make a situation or condition worse: 2. to annoy someone: . Learn more.