Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - aggravate
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(aggravates, aggravating, aggravated) 1. If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse. Stress and lack of sleep can aggravate the situation... = exacerbate ? alleviate VERB: V n 2. If someone or something aggravates you, they make you annoyed. (INFORMAL) What aggravates you most about this country? = annoy VERB: V n • aggravating You don’t realise how aggravating you can be. = annoying ADJ • aggravation (aggravations) I just couldn’t take the aggravation. = annoyance N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (-vated; -vating) Etymology: Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare to make heavier, from ad- + gravare to burden, from gravis heavy — more at grieve Date: 1530 1. obsolete a. to make heavy ; burden b. increase 2. to make worse, more serious, or more severe ; intensify unpleasantly problems have been ~d by neglect 3. a. to rouse to displeasure or anger by usually persistent and often petty goading b. to produce inflammation in Usage: Although ~ has been used in sense 3a since the 17th century, it has been the object of disapproval only since about 1870. It is used in expository prose when his silly conceit…about his not-very-good early work has begun to ~ us — William Styron but seems to be more common in speech and casual writing a good profession for him, because bus drivers get ~d — Jackie Gleason (interview, 1986) & now this letter comes to ~ me a thousand times worse — Mark Twain (letter, 1864). Sense 2 is far more common than sense 3a in published prose. Such is not the case, however, with aggravation and aggravating. Aggravation is used in sense 3 somewhat more than in its earlier senses; aggravating has practically no use other than to express annoyance. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 increase the gravity of (an illness, offence, etc.). 2 disp. annoy, exasperate (a person). Derivatives aggravation n. Etymology: L aggravare aggravat- make heavy f. gravis heavy ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ухудшать, усиливать; отягчать to aggravate an illness —- обострять болезнь to aggravate danger —- усугублять опасность 2. юр. отягчать 3. раздражать; расчесывать; доводить до воспаления the child aggravates the rash by rubbing —- ребенок расчесывает сыпь 4. сл. изводить, раздражать; злить, сердить threats will only aggravate her —- угрозами ее можно только вывести из себя if he aggravates me any more I'll hit him —- если он не кончит меня изводить, я ему врежу the whispering in class aggravates the teacher —- перешептывание в классе бесит учителя ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) отягчать, усугублять; ухудшать; обострять 2) coll. раздражать, надоедать, огорчать Syn: see outrage ...Англо-русский словарь
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