Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aggravated
IPA transcription: ['æɡɹəv,eɪtɪd]
Pronunciations of aggravated
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aggravated, provoked
    Meaning: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"
  • Synonyms: aggravated
    Meaning: made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated assault"
Usage examples
  • The heat aggravated a burning thirst that was parching her throat.
  • I am still a sufferer; the old pains rather aggravated than relieved by this climate.
  • "I am not well, Mr. Belcour," said she, "very far from it; but the pains and infirmities of the body I could easily bear, nay, submit to them with patience, were they not aggravated by the most insupportable anguish of my mind."
  • "I do not intend to be insolent, Miss Burrows, but I have been greatly aggravated by your grandfather's unfortunate escape and in this emergency every moment is precious if I am to capture him before he gets out of America, as he has done once or twice before.
  • The ugly aspect which his countenance and demeanor exhibited at such times was greatly aggravated by a nervous affection of the head and face which attacked him, particularly when he was in a passion, and which produced convulsive twitches of the muscles that drew his head by jerks to one side, and distorted his face in a manner that was dreadful to behold.
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