Dictionary Entry
aggravate
aggravate is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
- 2transitive verb
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
- 3transitive verb
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
- 4transitive verb
To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
- 5verb
make worse
"This drug aggravates the pain"
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- 6verb
exasperate or irritate
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