From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggravate \Ag"gra*vate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Aggravated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aggravating}.] [L. aggravatus, p. p. of aggravare. See {Aggrieve}.]
1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] ''To aggravate thy store.'' --Shak.
2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. ''To aggravate my woes.'' --Pope.
To aggravate the horrors of the scene. --Prescott.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. --Addison.
3. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. --Paley.
4. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.]
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. --Richardson (Clarissa).
Syn: To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
aggravated \aggravated\ adjective
1. 1 made more severe or intense, especially in law; as, aggravated assault.
Syn: intensified. [WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 incited, especially deliberately, to anger. aggravated by passive resistance
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated assault"
2: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child" [syn: {provoked}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggravated": amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered, broken, browned-off, bugged, burned, burnt-up, burst, busted, chafed, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deliberately provoked, deteriorated, disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, galled, griped, harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, injured, intensified, irked, irritated, lacerated, magnified, mangled, miffed, mutilated, nettled, peeved, piqued, provoked, put-out, rent, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, soured, split, sprung, the worse for, torn, troubled, vexed, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened
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