Aggravate /ˈæɡ.rə.veɪt/
To make worse, or more severe. To render less tolerable or less excusable. To make more offensive. To enhance or to intensify.
To give coloring to in description, to exaggerate. To exasperate, to provoke, to irritate.
From Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare 'to render more troublesome,' literally 'to make heavy or heavier, add to the weight of,' from ad 'to' + gravare 'weigh down,' from gravis 'heavy' (from PIE root *gwere- 'heavy').

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