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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
aggravates, aggravating, aggravated |
| definition 1: |
to make worse.
She aggravated the pain in her knee by walking too soon after she got hurt.- antonyms:
- alleviate, appease, ease, heal, moderate, relieve, soothe
- similar words:
- deepen, heighten, increase, intensify
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| definition 2: |
(informal) to bother or annoy.
All of the noise on the playground aggravated me when I tried to read.- synonyms:
- annoy, bother, exasperate, irritate
- antonyms:
- appease, please, soothe
- similar words:
- bug, disturb, hassle, pester, ruffle
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| related words: |
compound, exasperate, grate, incense, irritate, offend, plague, trouble |
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| derivations: |
aggravatingly (adv.), aggravator (n.) |
The word aggravate
contains the following parts:
ag-
Latin
prefix
that means to, toward
  More about this word part:
The prefix ag-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of ad- used before roots beginning with "g." See ad-.
Example words:
grav
Latin
root
that means heavy
Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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