aggravate
Senso (Inglese)
Concetti
Opposto di
pour oil on troubled waters, alleviate, mitigate
sinonimi
make worse
enhance
provoke to anger
make angry
make difficult
Traduzioni
aggraver
agravar
verschlimmern
ergeren
kızdırmakFrequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/
Etimologia (Inglese)
The adjective is first attested in 1471 in Middle English, the verb in 1530; from Latin aggravātus, perfect passive participle of aggravō (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + gravō (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
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