AGGRAVATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggravated mean? 

• AGGRAVATED (adjective)
  The adjective AGGRAVATED has 2 senses:

1. made more severe or intense especially in law

2. incited, especially deliberately, to anger

  Familiarity information: AGGRAVATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRAVATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made more severe or intense especially in law

Context example:

aggravated assault

Similar:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Incited, especially deliberately, to anger

Synonyms:

aggravated; provoked

Context example:

the provoked animal attacked the child

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

 Context examples 

That cruel man with the wooden leg aggravated my sufferings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It may be aggravated by exposure to cold and is classified as idiopathic or secondary.

(Livedo Reticularis, NCI Thesaurus)

The water crisis currently facing the Central-West could be aggravated by the loss in the cerrado coverage, and the emission of greenhouse gases would reach 8.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)

Death resulting from previously existing disease or a disease developing during pregnancy which was not associated with gestation, but which was aggravated by the unique physiologic changes of pregnancy.

(Indirect Maternal Death, NCI Thesaurus)

If it was not fair on Monday, the young ladies were to come on Tuesday, an arrangement which aggravated Jo and Hannah to the last degree.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The two professors, their tempers aggravated no doubt by their injuries, had fallen out as to whether our assailants were of the genus pterodactylus or dimorphodon, and high words had ensued.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy, irrespective of the duration or anatomic site of the pregnancy, due to any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.

(Maternal Mortality, NCI Thesaurus)

It was, then, in the spring of the year 1897 that Holmes’s iron constitution showed some symptoms of giving way in the face of constant hard work of a most exacting kind, aggravated, perhaps, by occasional indiscretions of his own.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia's feelings in a most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her choice.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I slept about two hours, and dreamt I was at home with my wife and children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked, and found myself alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred feet wide, and above two hundred high, lying in a bed twenty yards wide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)