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Definitions of aggravation
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Exaggerated representation. Webster Dictionary DB
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Provocation; irritation. Webster Dictionary DB
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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A making worse: any quality or circumstance which makes a thing worse. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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Act of aggravating; state of being worse. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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A making heavier or worse; an enhancing circumstance. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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The act of aggravating; accession of what aggravates; exaggeration; provocation. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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A making worse; what excites anger. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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Usage examples for aggravation
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The affections she had already experienced could just admit of aggravation the addition occurred. – Nature and Art by Mrs. Inchbald
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To be bereft of their dearest is bad enough, but to be thrown penniless on the mercies of the cold and cruel- nay, rather thoughtless- world is surely an aggravation of their misery. – Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton