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aggravation

[ ag-ruh-vey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. an increase in intensity, seriousness, or severity; act of making worse:

    an aggravation of pain.

  2. the state of being aggravated. aggravated.
  3. something that causes an increase in intensity, degree, or severity.
  4. annoyance; exasperation:

    Johnny causes me so much aggravation!

  5. a source or cause of annoyance or exasperation:

    Johnny's such an aggravation to her!



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Other Word Forms

  • v·g·tDz noun
  • a··tDz noun
  • p·g·tDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aggravation1

1475–85; < Medieval Latin پō- (stem of پō ); aggravate, -ion
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These seemed far more pressing matters to bring to Jesus than the aggravation that your spouse won't fill the dishwasher correctly.

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If massive companies like Disney and Paramount can be so easily bullied, won’t their viewers wonder if their newsrooms might be instructed to start pulling punches to avoid further legal aggravation?

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Whether any of those dates will hold is a matter of the course nature takes, but that hasn’t stopped awards season devotees and those in the entertainment industry from expressing their aggravation.

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Such are the occasional aggravations and annoyances that bedevil the tony section of Los Angeles that Harris calls home.

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You can commit to an overly ambitious project that may have caused conflict, struggle and aggravation, but in retrospect, will be fondly remembered as an epic creation that evoked happiness while overcoming adversity.

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