Aggravation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AGGRAVATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act or circumstance that intensifies or makes worse
• the state of becoming worse or more serious; exacerbation
• annoyance or exasperation
• aggressive behaviour; harassment.
• The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
• Exaggerated representation.
• An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
• Provocation; irritation.
• an exasperated feeling of annoyance
• unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
• action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse

Words related to AGGRAVATION

aggravate14

Words that contain AGGRAVATION

aggravations17

How to use AGGRAVATION in a sentence

• She had hitherto walked on with bowed head amid that flow of chatter which brought her so much torture and shame, an aggravation, as it were, of her defeat.
• They have known this Government principally in connexion with the aggravation of their burdens and the limitation of their privileges.
• I think of all the women I know, she has the greatest genius for aggravation.
• Now such news would reach them as an aggravation of the injury.
• What passed between Miss Harlowe and Miss Howe has been, as I feared it would be, an aggravation.
• It was a bitter aggravation of our fate, to be under the arbitrary control of these fellows.
• The aggravation which, unknown to me, at this time occurred was the most fearful that any imagination could have devised.
• The greatest aggravation of my present lot was, that I was cut off from the friendship of mankind.
• Conventional consolations, conventional verses out of the Bible and conventional prayers are, it seems to me, an intolerable aggravation of suffering.
• There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene.
• His loss was an aggravation, especially as his deputy, Lawrence, was away.
• What for? Why should he? It was mere aggravation, to take care of her for a day, and then throw her off for ever to take care of herself.
• A great aggravation to the misery and discomfort in hospital was the plague of flies.
• In 1891, under circumstances not without grounds of aggravation against us, a mob in Valparaiso assaulted some seamen from our ships of war.
• I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its utmost aggravation.
• That they should begin with a stack of chimneys was an unexpected aggravation.
• Rather do all analogies argue that the hell and heaven of the future will be the aggravation, or mitigation, or continuation, of the perdition and salvation of the present.
• They might have served her end better than the terrible aggravation of her silence.
• As a further aggravation, after the father had twice administered laudanum, the vial containing the medicine disappeared from their tent, and could no more be found.
• Not that all the writings which appeared on this subject contained fresh matters of aggravation against lord George Sackville.
• Celtic relics, found in caves, are less than nothing to me, and Roman coins are a mere aggravation when one is bothered how to get current coin of the realm.
• It is no easy Matter to describe our Circumstance, but it is miserable with this Aggravation, That it might be easily mended, and yet no Remedy endeavoured.
• This also is an heinous Aggravation of his Offence, that he is inflicting Banishment upon me.
• And it was no small aggravation to my misery, to know that I was the means of disturbing all my friends in the next apartment.
• The presence of a spectre in the horizon is an aggravation of solitude.
• The wickedness, Sir, is of such a nature, as admits not of aggravation.
• I succeeded in disposing of these fish-shavings without any more serious result than an aggravation of my toothache.
• Inequalities in the Irish franchise were only an aggravation.
• It is besides no small aggravation of the public misfortune, that the disease, on this hypothesis, appears to be without remedy.
• The boycott which the Chinese have resorted to as a mode of coercion he condemned as an aggravation of existing difficulties.
• It is therefore properly left to the court to fix the sum, which should correspond to the aggravation of the offense.

Similar words containing AGGRAVA without suffix tion

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