Word Meanings - AGGRAVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "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.

Additional info about word: AGGRAVATE

1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "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 prisioner'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. If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson . Syn. -- To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AGGRAVATE)

• Embitter
• Aggravate
• molest
• Enrage
• Provoke
• incite
• madden
• incense
• excite
• aggravate
• irritate
• inflame
• embitter
• infuriate
• exasperate
• Heighten
• Exalt
• increase
• enhance
• intensify
• color
• vivify
• raise
• exaggerate
• lift up
• amplify
• Swell
• Dilate
• extend
• enlarges
• heighten
• heave
• rise
• expand
• augment
• protuberate
• distend

Related words: (words related to AGGRAVATE)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• EXASPERATE
  Exasperated; imbittered. Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning. (more info) roughen, exasperate; ex out + asperare to make rough, asper
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.