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Aggress: Definition and part of speech

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Aggress

  1. n. Aggression.
  2. v. i. To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; — with on.
  3. v. t. To set upon; to attack.

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.

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.

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.

Aggregate: Definition and part of speech

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Aggregate

  1. n. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; — in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
  2. v. t. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”
  3. v. t. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  4. v. t. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
  5. a. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
  6. a. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
  7. a. Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  8. a. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  9. a. United into a common organized mass; — said of certain compound animals.
  10. n. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

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.