Aggravate

Verb

 * 1) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
 * 2) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — William Paley.
 * 3)  To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

Adverbs for Aggravate
arrogantly; brutally; continually; obviously; detrimentally; unceasingly; painfully.

Synonyms
heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, provoke, irritate, exasperate, worsen.

Antonyms
improve, help ,cure, soothe, relieve.

Thesaurus
accelerate; agent provocateur; aggrandize; alienate; amplify; anger; annoy; antagonize; arouse; augment; badger; bait; be at; bedevil; beef up; beset; blow up; bother; bristle; brown off; bug; build up; bullyrag; burn up; chafe; chivy; come between; complicate; concentrate; condense; consolidate; damage; deepen; deteriorate; devil; dilapidate; disaffect; discompose; distemper; disturb; disunite; divide; dog; double; embitter; endamage; enhance; enlarge; envenom; estrange; exacerbate; exaggerate; exasperate; exercise; fan the flame; fash; fret; frustrate; gall; get; grate; gripe; harass; harm; harry; heat up; heckle; hector; heighten; hop up; hot up; hound; huff; hurt; impair; incense; increase; inflame; infuriate; injure; intensify; irk; irritate; jazz up; key up; light the fuse; madden; magnify; make acute; make complex; make trouble; make worse; miff; molest; mount; multiply; nag; needle; nettle; nudzh; peeve; persecute; perturb; pester; pick on; pique; pit against; plague; pluck the beard; pother; provoke; put back; ramify; rankle; redouble; reinforce; ride; rile; rise; roil; rouse; ruffle; separate; set against; set at odds; set at variance; set on; set up; sharpen; sic on; soup up; sour; sow dissension; step up; stir the blood; stir up; stir up trouble; strengthen; tease; torment; triple; trouble; try the patience; tweak the nose; upset; vex; weaken; whet; work up; worry; worsen

Etymology
From aggravatus:, past participle of aggravare: < ad: + gravare: < gravis:. See grave: and compare aggrieve: and aggredge:.

Related terms

 * aggravation

Translations

 * Bulgarian: влошавам, утежнявам
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Malayalam: വഷളാക്കുക (vashalaakkuka)
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, empeorar


 * Malayalam: ഊതിപ്പെരുപ്പിക്കുക (oothipperuppikkuka)


 * Russian: усложнять


 * Bulgarian: ядосвам
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ärgern, verbittern


 * Malayalam: അലോസരപ്പെടുത്തുക (alosarappeduththuka)
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: irritar, exasperar

Verb
aggravate