Definitions for aggravate

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aggravate ag·gra·vate

Spelling: [ag-ruh-veyt]

IPA: /ˈæg rəˌveɪt/

Aggravate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in aggravate (aaaeggrtv).

Definitions for aggravate

verb (used with object)

1. to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome:
2. to annoy; irritate; exasperate:
3. to cause to become irritated or inflamed:

Origin of aggravate

1425-75; late Middle English Latin aggravātus (past participle of aggravāre), equivalent to ag- ag- + grav- (see grave²) + -ātus

Examples for aggravate

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

This, in turn, serves to amplify and aggravate differences of interest and power among the competing national groups.

This will but aggravate her sufferings and expose her to contempt.

Two circumstances had combined to aggravate the national vice.

He knows I don't want sech things, and he does it jest to aggravate me.

When he grew a little better, the Bohemian rather began to aggravate him.

We only multiply our feebleness, and aggravate our deficiencies.

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.

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