Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of aggravating or the state of being aggravated.
- n. A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble.
- n. Exasperation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Increase of the weight, intensity, heinousness, or severity of anything; the act of making worse; addition, or that which is added, to anything evil or improper: as, an aggravation of pain, grief, crime, etc.
- n. Exaggeration, as in a pictorial representation or in a statement of facts; heightened description.
- n. Provocation; irritation.
- n. In Rom. canon law, a censure, threatening excommunication after disregard of three admonitions.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. Exaggerated representation.
- n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Exaggerated representation.
- n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- n. colloq. Provocation; irritation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- n. action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
- n. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
Etymologies
- From Middle French aggravation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If, in fact, he is found guilty he moves on to the penalty phase and my guess would be, and again the lawyers can chime in, is that his previous record at that point would come in as a factor in what they call aggravation that the prosecution would present.”
“Yes, the open-air angst and mechanical aggravation is lost to us, but hold the phone.”
“My other ongoing aggravation is not limited to Martha, it's all the how-to shows where the person doing a demonstration must explain their actions as they go along.”
“The major aggravation is the conflict breaking out in South Ossetia.”
“The minor aggravation is that the internet here is down.”
“After matter in aggravation, extenuation, or mitigation has been introduced the prosecution or defense has the right to cross-examine any witnesses and to offer evidence in rebuttal.”
“You see how obedient the Rechabites are to their father's commandment (v. 14); but you have not inclined your ear to me (v. 15), though one might much more reasonably expect that the people of God should have obeyed him than that the sons of Jonadab should have obeyed him; and the aggravation is very high, for, 1.”
“We may not always like what the First Amendment permits, but we've agreed as a nation that the short-term aggravation of personal offense is the tithe we pay for freedom.”
“For all the short-term aggravation it causes, the avalanche of snow that's covered Rockingham County this winter has plen ...”
“I understand why you need your set up for work, but I don’t see how installing one browser that will stop the aggravation is a big deal, especially since you know your stuff.”
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