verb
- Make worse.
- usage: "This drug aggravates the pain"
- synonyms: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
- Exasperate or irritate.
- synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate
adjective
- Made more severe or intense especially in law.
- usage: "aggravated assault"
- Incited, especially deliberately, to anger.
- usage: "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"
- synonyms: provoked
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