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Definition of Aggravation

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. Related Definitions: Accident, Act, Additional, Aggravating, An, And, Calamity, Circumstance, Crime, Enhancing, Exaggerated, Extrinsic, Guilt, In, Increasing, Injurious, Irritation, Making, Misery, Moral, Natural, Of, Or, Provocation, Representation, Severity, Something, The, To, Used, Which, Worse, Wrong

Aggravation Quotations War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. Benjamin Disraeli The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. Joseph Addison 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 Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne

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

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