Sample Sentences for
aggravate
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(editor-reviewed)

aggravate as in:  she aggravates me

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She is the most aggravating person I know.
aggravating = annoying
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    She sees the bad side of everything and is aggravated by cheerful people.
    aggravated = annoyed or irritated
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    She possessed the unique ability to aggravate almost anyone she ever met.  (source)
    aggravate = irritate or annoy
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    It seemed only yesterday that he was telling me not to aggravate Aunty.  (source)
    aggravate = annoy or irritate
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    I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.  (source)
    aggravating = annoying or irritating
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    But there was a way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey on foot.  (source)
    aggravation = annoyance or irritation
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through  (source)
    aggravate = annoy or irritate
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    This aggravates his father no end, and several other adults have made nasty remarks about it too.  (source)
    aggravates = annoys or irritates
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    Her week of idleness had brought home to her with exaggerated force these small aggravations of the boarding-house world, and she yearned for that other luxurious world, whose machinery is so carefully concealed that one scene flows into another without perceptible agency.†  (source)
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    I don't know why I'm feeling so aggravated.  (source)
    aggravated = annoyed or irritated
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    He discovered Isabelle to be discreetly and aggravatingly unsentimental in letters, but he hoped against hope that she would prove not too exotic a bloom to fit the large spaces of spring as she had fitted the den in the Minnehaha Club.†  (source)
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    Presumption Of Power, Aggravateth†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She aggravateth" in older English, today we say "She aggravates."
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    "Oh, they're all right, bless their heart," said his wife; "it's you that's the aggravatingest old thing that ever was."  (source)
    aggravatingest = most annoying or irritating
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    The whole reception was beautiful and interesting and completely aggravating.  (source)
    aggravating = annoying or irritating
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aggravate as in:  aggravated his illness

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The offense is aggravated by...
aggravated = made worse
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    The drug aggravates the pain.
    aggravates = makes worse
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    The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair.  (source)
    aggravate = make worse
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    Gus always managed to aggravate whatever situation he was in with a woman.  (source)
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    This shift in weight only aggravated the larger problem, and the shimmy grew stronger.  (source)
    aggravated = made worse
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    Aggravate that most useful human characteristic, the horror and neglect of the obvious.  (source)
    Aggravate = make worse
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    It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full of innocence and joy, the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.  (source)
    aggravation = something that makes something worse
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He held his left hind leg off the ground to avoid aggravating his wound: a long gash that nearly severed the muscle.  (source)
    aggravating = making worse
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    It was a typical midsummer day in Boston-hot, humid, with the same news that usually accompanied such weather-a few assaults brought on by aggravated tensions and two early afternoon murders by people who had taken it too far.  (source)
    aggravated = made worse
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    Since this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most, we thus aggravate the female's chronic horror of growing old (with many excellent results) and render her less willing and less able to bear children.  (source)
    aggravate = make worse
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    You may not have heard of the last blow--Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates. She left London a few hours before we entered it. At any other time this would have been felt dreadfully. Now it seems nothing; yet it is an heavy aggravation.  (source)
    aggravation = something making the situation worse
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    There is, of course, always the chance, not of chloroforming the shame, but of aggravating it and producing Despair.  (source)
    aggravating = making worse
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    …a nagging weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then, digestive troubles, all aggravated by a feeling of oppression, a sense of doom...  (source)
    aggravated = made worse
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    Her jealousy, and alarm, and his increasing evasiveness or rudeness, will be invaluable for the aggravation of the domestic tension.  (source)
    aggravation = making worse
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