Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to aggravate
Participle: aggravated
Gerund: aggravating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | aggravate |
| you | aggravate |
| he;she;it | aggravates |
| we | aggravate |
| you | aggravate |
| they | aggravate |
Perfect
| I | have aggravated |
| you | have aggravated |
| he;she;it | has aggravated |
| we | have aggravated |
| you | have aggravated |
| they | have aggravated |
Past
| I | aggravated |
| you | aggravated |
| he;she;it | aggravated |
| we | aggravated |
| you | aggravated |
| they | aggravated |
Pluperfect
| I | had aggravated |
| you | had aggravated |
| he;she;it | had aggravated |
| we | had aggravated |
| you | had aggravated |
| they | had aggravated |
Future
| I | will aggravate |
| you | will aggravate |
| he;she;it | will aggravate |
| we | will aggravate |
| you | will aggravate |
| they | will aggravate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have aggravated |
| you | will have aggravated |
| he;she;it | will have aggravated |
| we | will have aggravated |
| you | will have aggravated |
| they | will have aggravated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | aggravate |
| you | aggravate |
| he;she;it | aggravate |
| we | aggravate |
| you | aggravate |
| they | aggravate |
Perfect
| I | have aggravated |
| you | have aggravated |
| he;she;it | have aggravated |
| we | have aggravated |
| you | have aggravated |
| they | have aggravated |
Imperfect
| I | aggravated |
| you | aggravated |
| he;she;it | aggravated |
| we | aggravated |
| you | aggravated |
| they | aggravated |
Pluperfect
| I | had aggravated |
| you | had aggravated |
| he;she;it | had aggravated |
| we | had aggravated |
| you | had aggravated |
| they | had aggravated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would aggravate |
| you | would aggravate |
| he;she;it | would aggravate |
| we | would aggravate |
| you | would aggravate |
| they | would aggravate |
Perfect
| I | would have aggravated |
| you | would have aggravated |
| he;she;it | would have aggravated |
| we | would have aggravated |
| you | would have aggravated |
| they | would have aggravated |
Imperative
| you | aggravate |
| we | Let's aggravate |
| you | aggravate |
Verbs conjugated like 'aggravate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'aggravate'
aggrate,
aggregate,
reaggravate,
acervate,
aggerate,
aggrace,
aggrade,
degradate,
gradate,
pregravate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cause anger
- anger, annoy, displease, grill, irritate, vex
- to make worse
- worsen
- to cause someone to be upset or displeased
- annoy, antagonize, bother, bug, chap someone's hide, exasperate, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get up, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, irk, jazz, nark, peeve, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rile, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, ruffle someone's feathers, tick off, try one's patience, vex, wind up
- To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate
- enrage
- to make or render worse
- adulterate, canker, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degrade, deteriorate, envenom, exacerbate, impair, infect, pejorate, set back, stain, vitiate, weaken
- impair or debase by mixture
- alloy
- infect or vitiate
- leaven
- to make impure with intention to deceive
- sophisticate
- worsen
- provoke, exacerbate, intensify, heighten, increase
- irritate
- exasperate, gall, rile, anger, annoy, provoke
Antonyms
- to make something worse
- improve
- to restore to a sound or good state
- break, damage, hurt, repair
- to make better
- deteriorate, pejorate, improve, worsen
- to make or render worse
- ameliorate, improve, repair, restore
- irritate
- appease, conciliate, delight, mollify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. By surface analysis, ag- + grave (“heavy”) + -ate (“verb suffix”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] his head to send me right by here, with a note to Mr. Symmes, that lives a mile past. I believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I have. It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate ’ Shelby's folks, ’ as he calls ’ em. I 'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over. I 've got some preparations made,—and there are those that will help me; and, in the course [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] saw them first at their work (basket-making, and the manufacture of palm-leaf hats ), afterwards in their school, where they sang a chorus in praise of Liberty: an odd, and, one would think, rather aggravating, theme for prisoners. These boys are divided into four classes, each denoted by a numeral, worn on a badge upon the arm. On the arrival of a new-comer, he is put into the fourth or lowest class, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] can they for a moment make a compromise between the institution or any of its flagrant, fearful features, and their own just consciences ? Will they say of any tale of cruelty and horror, however aggravated in degree, that it is improbable, when they can turn to the public prints, and, running, read such signs as these, laid before them by the men who rule the slaves: in their own acts and under their [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Long before his wounds were healed, Legree insisted that he should be put to the regular field-work; and then came day after day of pain and weariness, aggravated by every kind of injustice and indignity that the ill-will of a mean and malicious mind could devise. Whoever, in _our_ circumstances, has made trial of pain, even with all the alleviations which, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)