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1
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
- it really aggravates me when I arrive 10 minutes before the stated closing time, and the store's closed already
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- agitate,
- discomfort,
- discompose,
- disquiet,
- distress,
- exercise,
- freak (out),
- fret,
- perturb,
- undo,
- unhinge,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- worry
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2
to make more severe
- overheated rhetoric that only aggravated an already tense situation
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“Aggravate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggravate. Accessed 31 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of aggravate was in 1530
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