Usually means: Make a situation or condition worse.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word aggravate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. aggravate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aggravate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aggravate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aggravate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aggravate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aggravate, aggravate: Wordnik
  7. aggravate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aggravate: Wiktionary
  9. aggravate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aggravate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aggravate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. aggravate: Dictionary.com
  13. aggravate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Aggravate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Aggravate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. aggravate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. aggravate: Rhymezone
  18. aggravate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. aggravate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. aggravate: Free Dictionary
  21. aggravate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aggravate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. aggravate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aggravate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. aggravate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aggravate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
verb:  (by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
verb:  (now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
verb:  (obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
verb:  (now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

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