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adjective

ˈa-grə-ˌvā-təd How to pronounce aggravated (audio)
Definition of aggravatednext
as in irritated
subjected to and reacting with irritation aggravated customers looking in vain for a salesclerk for assistance

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aggravated

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verb

past tense of aggravate
1
as in annoyed
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts it really aggravates me when I arrive 10 minutes before the stated closing time, and the store's closed already

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2
as in deepened
to make more severe overheated rhetoric that only aggravated an already tense situation

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Recent Examples of aggravated
Adjective
His son, 16-year-old Colt Gray, pleaded guilty to all 55 counts against him, including murder and aggravated assault. — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 July 2026 Parsons was also previously convicted of burglary and aggravated battery. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
Verb
Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez aggravated his sore right elbow on Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers. — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026 Houthi attacks in the Red ⁠Sea have aggravated the disruptions of supplies to global markets. — Reuters, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for aggravated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggravated
  1. irritated
  2. annoyed
  3. deepened
  4. bothered
  5. bugged
  6. intensified
  7. exasperated
  8. persecuted
Adjective
  • Nice people may of course become irritated, disappointed, jealous, or defensive, since niceness does not require sainthood.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Soto, looking irritated, reaches out and slaps him upside the head.
    — Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of irritated
Verb
  • That was Gardner’s first game with the Colts after being acquired from the New York Jets, and while Indy pulled out the OT victory, Gardner was still annoyed by some of the social media chatter afterward.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Millard was either won over by Makowsky’s passion or annoyed into agreement by his persistence.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of annoyed
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  • The intervention of Allied troops on the White Russian side in the Russian Civil War deepened Bolshevik paranoia, and Bolshevik leaders concluded that hostile powers would always seek to destroy Russia by cultivating internal enemies.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Israel and Greece have deepened defense ties in the last decade.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of deepened
Adjective
  • Admittedly, viewers on the festival circuit, like those in Locarno where this debuted, and folks who might catch it on streamers or in niche distribution are unlikely to be very bothered about the film’s lack of impartiality.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Rumpled lengths ooze insouciance, radiating a can't-be-bothered energy that, for some, is far cooler than even the bounciest blowout.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 4 July 2026
Definition of bothered
Verb
  • The indictment revealed that prosecutors had bugged the Aisenbergs' home for three months after Sabrina's disappearance.
    — Curran Rastogi, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a law-enforcement agency known as NABU, had bugged Mindich’s apartment in Kyiv, and detectives picked up his conversations about Fire Point.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Definition of bugged
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  • Earlier in the week, Prokudin said that Russia has intensified attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, which is about 70% under Russian control.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The legal challenge intensified an unusually public dispute over how AI can be used in warfare and mass surveillance.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of intensified
Adjective
  • John Stewart’s exasperated adieu to his alien abductors doubles as a meta acknowledgement of Episode 2’s exposition-heavy plotting.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Aug. 2026
  • These were voices—complaining, confiding, exasperated, distressed—that had not been heard before, as if the novel were a speaking tube cued to an underground rumble.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of exasperated
Verb
  • García Luna pledged to restore independence and public confidence in the Public Ministry and began reviewing cases involving officials, journalists, and others who alleged that they had been politically persecuted under the previous administration.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Many Marranos persecuted by the Inquisition did secretly maintain a Jewish identity.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of persecuted

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