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What does aggravate mean?

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Verb
  1. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
  2. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate
  3. To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
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The woman was still following me, and it was beginning to irritate and aggravate me.
Shovelling snow, swimming by way of a crawl or butterfly stroke, or playing hockey all aggravate his condition.
Your doctor needs to review your medicines since atenolol is a beta blocker that can aggravate asthma.
Some critics complain that any such bailout would aggravate the market's decline by encouraging investors to dump even more losers.
Not how will you aggravate him, challenge him, dare him, antagonize him, and make an enemy out of him.
This can lead to diestocks being lost or misplaced, and can aggravate the user.

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