aggravate
verb · adjectiveB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 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.
(broadly)(by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse.
Đồng nghĩa: exacerbate
- 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.
(obsolete)To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
Đồng nghĩa: dogpile, heap on, pile on
- 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- 1.
(obsolete)(as a participle) Aggravated.
- 2.
(obsolete)Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
- 3.
(obsolete)(in a bad sense) Heightened, intensified.
- 4.
(obsolete)(religion) Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.
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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.