Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to aggravate.
- noun That which aggravates or tends to aggravate or make worse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to aggravate.
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- adjective Tending to
aggravate . - noun That which aggravates.
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Examples
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They may be criminative, or exculpative, or aggravative, or evidential.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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This young man, Mr. James Dawson by name, -- for by the endearing aggravative of Jemmy he is only known in Mr. William Shenstone's charming ballad (the gentleman that lived at the Leasowes, and writ the
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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