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What does aggravation mean?

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Noun
  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.
  2. Exaggerated representation.
  3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
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As a result, consumer prices grow, accompanied by a drastic aggravation of service quality.
The outcome will be economic aggravation, dashing the desperate hope for an economic recovery.
These verses, which sounded as if they had been sung expressly for the dirge of my departed happiness, were only an aggravation of my feelings.
I accept that he did suffer from some aggravation of his existing mental health problems.
In this article I shall try to present you my opinion about the recent aggravation of earthquakes across the globe.
However, he came through the game without any major aggravation of the injury and the clash will stand to him for the semi-final.

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