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aggravation
[ ag-ruh-vey-shuhn ]
noun
- an increase in intensity, seriousness, or severity; act of making worse:
an aggravation of pain.
- the state of being aggravated. aggravated.
- something that causes an increase in intensity, degree, or severity.
- annoyance; exasperation:
Johnny causes me so much aggravation!
- a source or cause of annoyance or exasperation:
Johnny's such an aggravation to her!
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Usage Note
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Other Words From
- over·aggra·vation noun
- preag·gra·vation noun
- super·aggra·vation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aggravation1
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Example Sentences
I could save myself a lot of time and aggravation if I just limited my listening to megastars and their hyped hits.
Some later claimed that a cop shook a can of mace, an uncalled for act of aggravation, one man said.
Does old-fashioned aggravation—emotional wear and tear, agita, tsuris, call it what you will—really take years off your life?
We have worked too hard to give it up now or debt and aggravation.
Sometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.
We'll visit this third party and if we strike out we'd better leave town for a few days to avoid a lot of aggravation.
Another aggravation in her case was that she had an active temperament and strong mind.
Such was the state of his mind, when his ordinary maladies had the serious aggravation of a violent fit of the gout.
Among the mitigating circumstances I should be inclined to name even those which you bring in aggravation.
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