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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