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Thesaurus: aggravate

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

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  1. v. t. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
  2. v. t. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
  3. v. t. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
  4. v. t. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
  5. v. make worse
  6. v. exasperate or irritate
  7. v:100 v make worse v exasperate or irritate