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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Making worse or more heinous;

as,

aggravating

circumstances

Exasperating; provoking; irritating.

[Colloq.]

A thing at once ridiculous and

aggravating

J. Ingelow.

ppr.

Increasing in severity, enormity, or degree, as evils, misfortunes, pain, punishment, crimes, guilt, &c.; exaggerating.

aggravating