Dictionary

aggravation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French aggravation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound. 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
2. (countable, uncountable) Exaggerated representation.
3. (countable, uncountable) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. (countable, informal, uncountable) A feeling of being provoked by irritation and annoyance; the feeling of being riled up or increasingly irritated.
   • A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange, “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:

Forms

Deriveds

reaggravation · overaggravation

Relateds

aggravate

Synonyms

exacerbation

Translations (21)

pt agravação (act of aggravating) · fr circonstances aggravantes (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity) · de erschwerender Umstand (act of aggravating) · nl verergering (act of aggravating) · de med. Verschlechterung (act of aggravating) · pt agravamento (act of aggravating) · de Zuspitzung (act of aggravating) · es agravación (act of aggravating) · bg утежняване (act of aggravating) · es agravamiento (act of aggravating) · bg влошаване (act of aggravating) · es agravante (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity) · pt agravante (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity) · fi suututtaminen (act of aggravating) · de Erschwerung (act of aggravating) · hu súlyosbító körülmény (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity) · pt agravo (act of aggravating) · es agravio (act of aggravating) · fi ärsyttäminen (act of aggravating) · fi raskauttava asianhaara (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity) · de Verärgerung (act of aggravating)