Definition of Aggravation

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Aggravation

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

Exaggerated representation.

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Provocation; irritation.

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Aggravation Quotations

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. Adams

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
Dave Edmunds

Aggravation Translations

aggravation in German is Verschlimmerung
aggravation in Spanish is agravamiento, agravante

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