Aggravated
['ægrəveɪtɪd] or ['ægrə'vetɪd]
Definition
(adj.) incited, especially deliberately, to anger; 'aggravated by passive resistance'; 'the provoked animal attacked the child' .
(adj.) made more severe or intense especially in law; 'aggravated assault' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Aggravate
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Examples
- The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They shall be aggravated. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A robbery of a daring and aggravated nature occasioned a vigilance of pursuit, and a strictness of search, they had not calculated on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty? Plato. The Republic.
- The cold that followed was of an aggravated kind, and it has now brought with it the worst consequence--fever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That cruel man with the wooden leg aggravated my sufferings. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And I was so aggravated that I almost doubt if I did know. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If it was not fair on Monday, the young ladies were to come on Tuesday, an arrangement which aggravated Jo and Hannah to the last degree. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- That tax would be cruel and oppressive, which aggravated their loss, by taking from them any part of his succession. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- My situation, aggravated by the sense of my own miserable weakness and forgetfulness of myself, now too late awakened in me, was becoming intolerable. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The bread burned black; for the salad dressing so aggravated her that she could not make it fit to eat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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