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aggravate

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Verb

  1. To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
  2. To make (any bad thing) worse.
  3. To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
  4. To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
  5. To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

Adjective

  1. Aggravated.
  2. Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
  3. Heightened, intensified.
  4. Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.

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