aggravate

verb · adjectiveB2

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verb
V_es/s
aggravates
V_ing/Gerund
aggravating
V_ed/pp
aggravated
  1. 1.

    To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

    Đồng nghĩa: add insult to injury, twist the knife, add fuel to the fire, add insult to injury, cap it all off, fan the flames, make matters worse, throw gasoline on the fire, With malice, hit someone when they are down, kick a dog when it's down, kick someone when they are down, punch down, put the boot in, rub it in, rub salt in the wound, strike someone when they are down, twist the knife

  2. 2.

    (broadly)(by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse.

    Đồng nghĩa: exacerbate

  3. 3.

    (archaic)(now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.

    He aggravated the story.

    Đồng nghĩa: heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, accelerate, accrue, aggrandize, augment, embiggen, enhance, enlarge, greaten, grow, heighten, increase, swell, wax, wind up

  4. 4.

    (obsolete)To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.

    Đồng nghĩa: dogpile, heap on, pile on

  5. 5.

    (colloquial, often, proscribed)(now chiefly colloquial; often proscribed; see usage notes) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

    Đồng nghĩa: provoke, irritate, exasperate, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more aggravate
Superlative
most aggravate
  1. 1.

    (obsolete)(as a participle) Aggravated.

  2. 2.

    (obsolete)Loaded, burdened, weighed down.

  3. 3.

    (obsolete)(in a bad sense) Heightened, intensified.

  4. 4.

    (obsolete)(religion) Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

add insult to injurytwist the knifeadd fuel to the firecap it all offfan the flamesmake matters worsethrow gasoline on the fireWith malicehit someone when they are downkick a dog when it's downkick someone when they are downpunch downput the boot inrub it inrub salt in the woundstrike someone when they are downexacerbateheightenintensifyincrease

Trái nghĩa

pour oil on troubled watersalleviatemitigate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

aggravation

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro The adjective is 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy) (see -ate and -ate), from ad- (to) + gravō (to make heavy), from gravis (heavy) + -ō. See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. ag- grave.

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