English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language

aggravate English

Meaning aggravate meaning

What does aggravate mean?
Definitions in simple English

aggravate Verb

— To aggravate is to make something worse. The doctor said eating too much would aggravate his condition. When you aggravate someone, you irritate and annoy them. The sound of her voice was enough to aggravate me.

aggravate

— verb make worse This drug aggravates the pain — verb (= exasperate) exasperate or irritate

Synonyms aggravate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as aggravate?

aggravate English » English

exacerbate exasperate worsen irritate annoy provoke intensify anger make worse vex enrage complicate infuriate incense nettle rile rankle irk inflame incite gall escalate enhance embitter bother upset tease stir up stimulate ruffle rouse provoke to anger pique peeve offend obstruct miff make difficult make angry madden heighten fret excite deteriorate chafe bug accelerate worry work up whet

Topics aggravate topics

What do people use aggravate to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

Conjugation aggravate conjugation

How do you conjugate aggravate?

aggravate · verb

Examples aggravate examples

How do I use aggravate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I never knew anyone that can aggravate me the way he does.
Dirty tables aggravate me.
Don't aggravate yourself. It's me is shot.
But bombing that nest tonight would only aggravate our problem.
The chamberlain's intervention would aggravate matters.
I ignored him. I didn't want to aggravate the situation.
If she can't aggravate me, she's not happy.
Sir, you will only further aggravate the problem.
Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me.
Come on, Streaky. Aggravate the gravel.
Morbius wouldn't want to aggravate the sisterhood at this stage.
Just don't aggravate me.
You'd love to get me! You touch me, and you're dead! Shh, don't aggravate them.
If we press on too long, it could aggravate his wound.
Violent exercise will only aggravate your condition.
Do not aggravate me.
His raids into nearby nations to abduct free men and women into slavery could aggravate the tense situation in the Near East.
And, of course, they're doing their best to aggravate the situation.
Your mother is so ill that we keep your letters from her. in order not to aggravate her condition.
Don't aggravate your injury.
Shh, don't aggravate them.
It'll aggravate your asthma.
I never knew anyone that can aggravate me the way he does. -l can't think about him without seeing red.
Oh, go along with you before you aggravate me again.
Dirty tables aggravate me. -You're gonna make this shot, you know.
Aggravate the gravel.
Don't aggravate him.
You aggravate your fault with all these lies.
He purposely does this to aggravate me!
Heh-heh-heh. Anyway, he's the man that you don't want to aggravate.
What did he do, aggravate you?
You could aggravate it.
I hope Dr Gottfreund doesn't aggravate his hernia when he goes underneath the limbo pole.
But as kids, we would aggravate the situation by flaunting our toys in each other's faces.
Emotional outbursts will only aggravate your condition.
I was able to aggravate them all.

News and current affairs

In the process, markets take investors on a wild rollercoaster ride, with the European crisis (riddled with even more confusion and volatility) serving to aggravate their queasiness.
But more consumption today would further aggravate the pollution problem.
With China retaining its under-valued currency policy, dollar depreciation can aggravate global deflationary forces.
Furthermore, the BIS claims that credit may well aggravate structural deficiencies.
But any strategy that aims to destroy Hamas as a political force, were it feasible, would only aggravate the crisis by transforming Hamas into a cluster of violent armed groups with which dialogue would be almost impossible.
If not, will expansion aggravate the problem because the biases of ECB members will become even more divergent than they are today?
It is time to face reality: the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey's fears that its existence will aggravate that country's own Kurdish problem.
Allowing this conflict to fester will only aggravate our peoples' insecurity and our region's instability.
Other factors are likely to aggravate the situation.
Two other developments will greatly aggravate these weaknesses.
Short-term flows not only wreak havoc with domestic macroeconomic management, but they also aggravate adverse exchange-rate movements.
This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.
But it is also true that Iran's emergence as the ninth nuclear power would provoke a regional and global upheaval, dangerously aggravate fears and suspicions, and confront the international community with a profound crisis of vision and policy.
To the Kremlin's rulers, this may seem an acceptable cost for retaining power, but postponing reform will only aggravate Russia's countless problems.
The ensuing losses will aggravate the financial turmoil and economic contraction.
This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.
Obviously, Myanmar's new government does not want to aggravate sentiment in its already-unstable border areas, where rebel groups were using the dam project to rally new supporters.
Some of these countries are either in conflict or are fragile states, so a diminishing flow of remittances will aggravate their instability, and perhaps increase the flow of migration to other countries.
And can anyone believe, even fleetingly, that Russia's intervention will lessen, rather than aggravate, Syria's refugee crisis?
A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward-looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.
Either scenario would greatly aggravate Europe's crisis: soaring oil costs or another US recession would harm even the strong northern European economies, to say nothing of the already-depressed countries in Europe's south.
Devastatingly high unemployment rates among European Muslims (three times higher than the national average in most countries) aggravate their social marginalization and cultural self-segregation.
Perhaps most importantly, the drive for greater competitiveness, regardless of the cost, will only aggravate the crisis.

Are you looking for...?

aggravated | aggravator | aggravating | aggravation | aggravative | aggravatable | aggravatedly | aggravatingly | aggravated assault | aggravable | aggrading stream | aggrace
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA