Aggravation
[,ægrə'veɪʃn] or [,ægrə'veʃən]
Definition
(noun.) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; 'the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care'.
(noun.) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
(noun.) an exasperated feeling of annoyance.
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Exaggerated representation.
(n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
(n.) Provocation; irritation.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. A heightening (of something evil).[2]. Exaggeration.[3]. [Of questionable propriety.] Provocation, irritation.
Typed by Hector
Examples
- Now it seems nothing; yet it is an heavy aggravation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There certainly was much aggravation of sin in my projected intercourse with the Marquis of Worcester. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The girl's father had the truth from her with every aggravation that her violent hate--I love her for it now--could add. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It seems almost an aggravation to her to remember how purely and piously, how much above the ordinary lot, she has been brought up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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