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Aggravation: Definition and part of speech

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Aggravation

  1. n. Provocation; irritation.
  2. n. The act of aggravating, or making worse; — used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
  3. n. Exaggerated representation.
  4. n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aggravate: Definition and part of speech

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Aggravate

  1. v. t. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
  2. v. t. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
  3. v. t. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
  4. v. t. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aggravating: Definition and part of speech

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Aggravating

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Aggravate
  2. a. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aggrandizement: Definition and part of speech

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Aggrandizement

  1. n. The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aggrandize: Definition and part of speech

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Aggrandize

  1. v. i. To increase or become great.
  2. v. t. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
  3. v. t. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; — applied to persons, countries, etc.
  4. v. t. To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.