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aggravate
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aggravate
Verb
  • 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. — William Paley.
  • To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.