Definizione monolingua

aggravate

aggravate (third-person singular simple present aggravates, present participle aggravating, simple past and past participle aggravated)

1. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

   To aggravate my woes. —Alexander Pope

   To aggravate the horrors of the scene. —William H. Prescott.

   The defense made by the prisoners counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. —Addison.

2. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — William Paley.
3. (formerly colloquial and proscribed) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

   If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. — Samuel Richardson Clarissa.

Definizione dizionario aggravate

	peggiorare
	To make worse.

	esasperare
	To irritate or provoke to a high degree.

aggravare

inasprire

incitare

irritare

rompere le scatole

seccare

spronare

Altri significati:

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

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate

(formerly colloquial and proscribed) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

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

To make worse, or more severe

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

aggravate (an injury)