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What does aggravate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word aggravate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
  2. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate
  3. To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
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Shovelling snow, swimming by way of a crawl or butterfly stroke, or playing hockey all aggravate his condition.
This introduces rotatory forces through the knee which can aggravate the condition.
The woman was still following me, and it was beginning to irritate and aggravate me.
Some critics complain that any such bailout would aggravate the market's decline by encouraging investors to dump even more losers.
By damming runoff, poor ridge layouts may aggravate surface drainage problems.
Nor would bringing in outside elements necessarily moderate ethnic nationalism, and may instead aggravate ethnic defensiveness.

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