All 4 Uses

aggravate
in
The Screwtape Letters
(Edited)

Aggravate that most useful human characteristic, the horror and neglect of the obvious.
Chpt 3

aggravate = make worse
Her jealousy, and alarm, and his increasing evasiveness or rudeness, will be invaluable for the aggravation of the domestic tension.
Chpt 10 *

aggravation = making worse
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.
Chpt 20

aggravate = make worse
There is, of course, always the chance, not of chloroforming the shame, but of aggravating it and producing Despair.
Chpt 29

aggravating = making worse

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