Aggravation Definition

ăgrə-vāshən
aggravations
noun
aggravations
The act of aggravating or the state of being aggravated.
American Heritage
The act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated.
Webster's New World
A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble.
American Heritage
A thing or circumstance that aggravates, or makes worse.
Webster's New World
Exasperation.
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Other Word Forms of Aggravation

Noun

Singular:
aggravation
Plural:
aggravations

Origin of Aggravation

  • From Middle French aggravation

    From Wiktionary

Aggravation Sentence Examples

  • Kris's sigh of aggravation came out as a hiss.

  • The power ended up to be hardly worth the aggravation.

  • All this was a great aggravation to his misery.

  • The festival of the new doctrine, which turned the head of the new pontiff (June 8), the loi de Prairial, or code of legal murder (June 10), which gave the deputies themselves into his hand; and the multiplication of executions at a time when the victory of Fleurus (June 25) showed the uselessness and barbarity of this aggravation of the Reign of Terror provoked against him the victorious coalition of revenge, lassitude and fear.

  • We will not make a case appear less serious than it is by leaving out evidence of racial or religious aggravation.

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Words Starting With

AAGAGG

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

Starts With A & Ends With NStarts With AG & Ends With NStarts With A & Ends With ON

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With A11 Letter Words Ending With N