aggravating
Meaning of aggravating
- To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
- (by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
- To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
He aggravated the story.
- To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
- To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
Information about aggravating
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of aggravating
ag-gra-vat-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- aggravating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
aggravating synonyms
Meaning exacerbating:
Meaning :
exasperate, irritate, provoke, exacerbate, exaggerate, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify
aggravating antonyms
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