aggravating
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aggravating
verb
- present participle and gerund of aggravate
adjective more aggravating · most aggravating
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That makes something worse.
aggravating circumstances
Opposite: alleviating, extenuating, mitigating
- Annoying.
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Closest in meaning: exacerbating, exasperating, intensifying, adding, aggravation, annoying, beefed-up, complicating, compounding, contributing, deepening, deteriorated, deteriorating, escalate, escalated, escalating
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