aggravation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French aggravation.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editaggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- Synonym: exacerbation
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.
- Exaggerated representation.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange (lyrics and music), “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:
- A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editact of aggravating
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exaggerated representation
extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity
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Further reading
edit- “aggravation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “aggravation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aggravation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aggravation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editaggravation f (plural aggravations)
Further reading
edit- “aggravation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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