aggravate

verb

1. To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

   “Once more, the more to aggrauate the note, With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte, And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue, What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue”

   “The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.”

2. (broadly)To make (any bad thing) worse.

   “to aggravate my woes.”

   “[…] to aggravate the horrors of the scene”

3. (archaic)To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.

   “He aggravated the story.”

4. (obsolete)To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.

   “In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.”

5. (colloquial, often, proscribed)To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

   “If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.”

   “Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Aggravated.
2. (obsolete)Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
3. (obsolete)Heightened, intensified.
4. (obsolete)Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.