глагол 1) отягчать, усугублять; ухудшать; обострять, углублять, усиливать Например: Falsehood will only aggravate your guilt. — Лжесвидетельство лишь усугубит твою вину. Синоним(ы): redouble, intensify 2) усиливаться, ухудшаться, обостряться (о болезни) 3) [используется в разговорной речи] злить, раздражать; надоедать Например: He was exceedingly aggravated with the travel. — Путешествие ужасно ему надоело . Синоним(ы): outrage
отягчать, усугублять, обострять
transitive verb (-vated; -vating) Etymology: Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare to make heavier, from ad- + gravare to burden, from gravis heavy — more at grieve 1. obsolete a. to make heavy; burden b. increase 2. to make worse, more serious, or more severe; intensify unpleasantly Example: problems have been aggravated by neglect 3. a. to rouse to displeasure or anger by usually persistent and often petty goading b. to produce inflammation in Usage: Although aggravate has been used in sense 3a since the 17th century, it has been the object of disapproval only since about 1870. It is used in expository prose Example: when his silly conceit…about his not-very-good early work has begun to aggravate us — William Styron but seems to be more common in speech and casual writing Example: a good profession for him, because bus drivers get aggravated — Jackie Gleason (interview, 1986) Example: and now this letter comes to aggravate me a thousand times worse — Mark Twain (letter, 1864). Sense 2 is far more common than sense 3a in published prose. Such is not the case, however, with aggravation and aggravating. Aggravation is used in sense 3 somewhat more than in its earlier senses; aggravating has practically no use other than to express annoyance.