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Definition of Aggravate
Aggravate

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

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Aggravate Quotations

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
Mike Ditka

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
Herman Kahn

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Thomas Day

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
Charlie Daniels

Aggravate Translations

aggravate in French is aggravent, aggravons, envenimer, aggravez
aggravate in Italian is peggiorare
aggravate in Latin is ingravo
aggravate in Norwegian is forverre
aggravate in Spanish is agravarse

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