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Aggravate vs. Aggreviate — What's the Difference?

Aggravate vs. Aggreviate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Aggravate and Aggreviate

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Aggravate

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

Aggravate

To make worse or more troublesome
Aggravate political tensions.
Aggravate a medical condition.

Aggravate

To annoy or exasperate
The child's whining aggravated me.

Aggravate

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

Aggravate

(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
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Aggravate

To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
He aggravated the story.

Aggravate

(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.

Aggravate

To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

Aggravate

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.

Aggravate

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.

Aggravate

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.

Aggravate

Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain

Aggravate

Exasperate or irritate

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