Aggravate vs. Aggreviate — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Aggravate or Aggreviate
How to spell Aggravate?
Aggravate
Correct Spelling
Aggreviate
Incorrect Spelling
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Aggravate Definitions
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
To make worse or more troublesome
Aggravate political tensions.
Aggravate a medical condition.
To annoy or exasperate
The child's whining aggravated me.
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
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To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
He aggravated the story.
(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain
Exasperate or irritate
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