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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French aggravation.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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aggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)

1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. Synonym: exacerbation
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.
2. Exaggerated representation.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
   • 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange, “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me

Derived terms

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• overaggravation
• reaggravation

Related terms

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• aggravate

Translations

[edit] act of aggravating

Bulgarian: влошаване (bg) (vlošavane), утежняване (utežnjavane) Dutch: verergering (nl) Finnish: ärsyttäminen (fi), suututtaminen (fi) German: Erschwerung, Verärgerung (de), Zuspitzung (de), med. Verschlechterung, erschwerender Umstand Portuguese: agravamento (pt) m, agravação (pt) f, agravo (pt) m Spanish: agravio (es) m

exaggerated representation extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity

Finnish: raskauttava asianhaara French: circonstances aggravantes (fr) f pl Hungarian: súlyosbító körülmény Portuguese: agravante (pt) m Spanish: agravante (es) m

Further reading

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• “aggravation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “aggravation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aggravation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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aggravation f (plural aggravations)

1. aggravation

Further reading

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• “aggravation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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