aggravate

  1. Verb.  To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
  2. Verb.  To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to '''aggravate''' circumstances. — William Paley.
  3. Verb.  (context, formerly) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

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