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Aggravating   /ˈægrəvˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Aggravate  v. t.  (past & past part. aggravated; pres. part. aggravating)  
1.
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. (Obs.) "To aggravate thy store."
2.
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." "To aggravate the horrors of the scene." "The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime."
3.
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
4.
To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. (Colloq.) "If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine."
Synonyms: To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.


adjective
Aggravating  adj.  
1.
Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
2.
Exasperating; provoking; irritating. (Colloq.) "A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating."





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"Aggravating" Quotes from Famous Books



... A more aggravating annoyance, however, brings loss to the owners of the herds. Despite the stringent law, there is always a certain number of desperate men who take perilous chances in stealing cattle and running them off beyond ...
— Two Boys in Wyoming - A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) • Edward S. Ellis
... up with the view of saving the life of the Sire de Retz; for the crime of homicide was presented without aggravating circumstances, in such a manner that it could be denied or shelved, whilst the crimes of felony and rebellion against the Duke of Brittany ...
— The Book of Were-Wolves • Sabine Baring-Gould
... them. Whenever an abrupt turn showed forward, Fitzgerald put his hand in his pocket. From whichever way it came, he, at least, was not going to be found unprepared. Sometimes, when he heard M. Ferraud's laughter drift back from the admiral's carriage, he longed to throttle the aggravating little man. Yet, his admiration of him was genuine. What a chap to have wandered round with, in the old days! He began to realize what Frenchmen must have been a hundred years gone. And the strongest point in his ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... she's got something locked up somewhere in that house as'd elucidate the whole of this aggravating mystery, if only we could get ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope
... Kit Carson and I started after the burro. He had run off, up the mountain again, and we couldn't catch him. He was too nervous. We'd get close to him, and with a snort and a toss of his ears he would jump away and fool us. That was very aggravating. ...
— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin


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