Aggravated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aggravate \Ag"gra*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aggravated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Aggravating}.] [L. aggravatus, p. p. of
     aggravare. See {Aggrieve}.]
     1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.]
        "To aggravate thy store." --Shak.
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     2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or
        less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to
        intensify. "To aggravate my woes." --Pope.
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              To aggravate the horrors of the scene. --Prescott.
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              The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did
              rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
                                                    --Addison.
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     3. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to
        aggravate circumstances. --Paley.
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     4. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.]
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              If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother
              and sister do mine.                   --Richardson
                                                    (Clarissa).
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     Syn: To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate;
          provoke; irritate; exasperate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  aggravated \aggravated\ adj.
     1. 1 made more severe or intense, especially in law; as,
        aggravated assault.
  
     Syn: intensified.
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     2. 1 incited, especially deliberately, to anger. aggravated
        by passive resistance
  
     Syn: provoked.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aggravated
       adj 1: made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated
              assault"
       2: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by
          passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the
          child" [syn: {provoked}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggravated":
     amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered, broken,
     browned-off, bugged, burned, burnt-up, burst, busted, chafed,
     checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged,
     deliberately provoked, deteriorated, disturbed, embittered,
     enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, galled, griped,
     harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, hurt, impaired,
     imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, injured,
     intensified, irked, irritated, lacerated, magnified, mangled,
     miffed, mutilated, nettled, peeved, piqued, provoked, put-out,
     rent, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, ruptured, scalded,
     scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, soured, split, sprung,
     the worse for, torn, troubled, vexed, weakened, worse, worse off,
     worsened