Usually means: Worsening or intensification of problems.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word aggravation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. aggravation: Merriam-Webster
  2. aggravation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aggravation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aggravation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aggravation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aggravation, aggravation: Wordnik
  7. aggravation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aggravation: Wiktionary
  9. aggravation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aggravation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Aggravation, aggravation: Dictionary.com
  12. aggravation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. aggravation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Aggravation (album), Aggravation (board game), Aggravation (law), Aggravation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Aggravation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. aggravation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. aggravation: Rhymezone
  18. Aggravation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. aggravation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. aggravation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. aggravation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aggravation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. aggravation: Merriam-Webster

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. aggravation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Aggravation (disambiguation), Aggravation (legal concept), aggravation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aggravation (legal concept), aggravation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Aggravation (disambiguation), aggravation: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. aggravation, aggravation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. aggravation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See aggravations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  Exaggerated representation.
noun:  An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
noun:  (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.

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