Sekirov Dictionary

aggravate

/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

verb 5
/ˈæɡɹəvət/ adjective 4
forms 7

verb5

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To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
- Once more, the more to aggrauate the note, With a foule Traitors name stuffe I thy throte, And wish (so please my Soueraigne) ere I moue, What my tong speaks, my right drawn sword may proue — 1595
•
To make (any bad thing) worse.
- to aggravate my woes. — 1726
•
(informal, nonstandard) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
- If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. — 1748
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(no longer used) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
- He aggravated the story.
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(no longer used) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
- In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state. — 1790

aggravate

/ˈæɡɹəvət/

adjective4

(no longer used) Aggravated.
(no longer used) Heightened, intensified.
(no longer used) Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
(no longer used) Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.

forms

aggravated · aggravating · aggravates · aggravateth · aggravatest · more aggravate · most aggravate

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