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aggravate
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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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    I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.  (source)
    aggravating = annoying or irritating
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    But their antics seemed to be aggravating Draco Malfoy, who looked increasingly sour each time he saw them at it.  (source)
    aggravating = annoying or irritating
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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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    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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    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)
    aggravations = annoyances or irritations
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    In a moment of selfishness, she finds herself aggravated by it, because things are going so well for her now.  (source)
    aggravated = annoyed or irritated
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    "Does he?" said Jace, in an aggravatingly thoughtful tone.†  (source)
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    Praemeditation, Aggravateth;†  (source)
    Aggravateth = annoys or irritates
    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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    I also talked to Margot about Father and Mother, about how nice it could be here if they weren't so 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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    I felt that to obtrude my consolations on her then would only serve to aggravate her sufferings.†  (source)
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    Must I say more to aggravate thy rage?†  (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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    The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair.  (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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    Gus always managed to aggravate whatever situation he was in with a woman.  (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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    People were tense and short-tempered, a situation only aggravated by the knowledge they were sailing toward a battle.  (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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