aggravate

verbannoy

verbcause to become worse

Word Origin & History

1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from past participle adjective aggravate "burdened; threatened" (late 15c.), from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy" (see aggravation). Earlier in this sense was aggrege (late 14c.). Meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; that of "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s.

Related: Aggravated; aggravating. Phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790.

Example Sentences for aggravate

Is it for you to aggravate as a crime, what reason teaches is, at worst, a misfortune?

I felt that to obtrude my consolations on her then would only serve to aggravate her sufferings.

And Kitty refused her breakfast in consequence—only to aggravate me.

I said, Protagoras; then I am a sorry physician, and do but aggravate a disorder which I am seeking to cure.

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