"aggravation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-aggravation.wav Forms: aggravations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French aggravation. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷreh₂-}}, {{der|en|frm|aggravation}} Middle French aggravation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} aggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)
  1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: exacerbation Translations (act of aggravating): влошаване (vlošavane) (Bulgarian), утежняване (utežnjavane) (Bulgarian), verergering (Dutch), ärsyttäminen (Finnish), suututtaminen (Finnish), Erschwerung (German), Verärgerung (German), Zuspitzung (German), med. Verschlechterung (German), erschwerender Umstand (German), agravamento [masculine] (Portuguese), agravação [feminine] (Portuguese), agravo [masculine] (Portuguese), agravio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-aggravation-en-noun-gQ7rpBJQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 15 7 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 72 11 8 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 72 10 7 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 10 7 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 61 11 11 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 60 14 11 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 59 11 11 18 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 62 13 10 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 64 12 10 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 50 22 9 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 54 12 9 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 70 10 8 12 Disambiguation of 'act of aggravating': 86 3 2 9
  2. Exaggerated representation. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-aggravation-en-noun-~XrIMw7h
  3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity): raskauttava asianhaara (Finnish), circonstances aggravantes [feminine, plural] (French), súlyosbító körülmény (Hungarian), agravante [masculine] (Portuguese), agravante [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-aggravation-en-noun-WsJo9rxV Disambiguation of 'extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity': 5 1 93 1
  4. (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-aggravation-en-noun-O9UJHZHZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: overaggravation, reaggravation Related terms: aggravate

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.