(v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
(v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
(v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
(v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major acute postoperative finding was aggravation of preexisting pharyngeal dysfunction.
(2) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(3) This experimental study shows that vitamin A in high doses has an adjuvant effect, that is aggravating considerably the immunologic arthritis induced in the Wistar rat.
(4) Nine factors have been isolated whose varying combinations were most contributory to the risk of the development of CS in the studied population: cardiac diseases, transient disorder of the cerebral circulation, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, aggravated heredity for cardiovascular diseases, intermittent claudication, diabetes mellitus, systematic alcohol abuse, and hypodynamia.
(5) A 63-year-old man, with a Waldenström's disease discovered by cryoglobulinemia (ischemic lesions of fingers) was quickly aggravating (hyperviscosity syndrome) under treatment by chlorambucil in a dosage of 8 mg daily.
(6) Existing visual field defects in three patients were slightly aggravated and in four patients, with a pathological optic disc, visual field loss developed.
(7) High blood pressure is itself an independent risk factor for vascular disease, in proportion to its height, for all ages and sexes, whether systolic or diastolic, labile or fixed, and the threat is further aggravated by surges in blood pressure throughout the person's daily activities.
(8) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
(9) Prophylactic administration of ionol which prevented a post-stress aggravation of the primary influenza infection failed to produce a favourable effect on the immunity in case of reinfection.
(10) Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus can aggravate the hyperlipidaemia associated with this disorder, presumably by increasing triglyceride synthesis and reducing very low density lipoprotein catabolism by lipoprotein lipase.
(11) In both, objective aggravation occurred in three or more steps over four days, progressing from minor finger clumsiness to total paralysis of the arm.
(12) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(13) Empirical studies suggest the following main conclusions: functional somatic symptoms are extremely common; a large proportion appear to be caused by physiologic activity and tend to be aggravated by emotion.
(14) This dilemma is aggravated by the loss from the work force of graduate nurses who fail the registered nurse licensure examination.
(15) This situation can lead to an aggravation of degenerative complications.
(16) He believes there are several factors that could aggravate extremists, other than the videos.
(17) Direct relationship between the increase of blood fibrinolytic activity and the aggravation of the vascular degeneration could not be observed in this experiment.
(18) Wash-out experiments show that the sugars prevent the aggravation of mediator release by a binding of sugar to the basophil cell membrane, thereby causing a blockade of binding sites responsible for the potentiating effect of virus.
(19) We have shown that heme, a hydrophobic iron chelate, is rapidly incorporated into endothelial cells where, after as little as 1 h, it markedly aggravates cytotoxicity engendered by polymorphonuclear leukocyte oxidants or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
(20) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
Enrage
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(2) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
(3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
(4) The government further enraged Mubarak's opponents when it tried to cover up the killing by alleging he choked on a bag of drugs.
(5) The new video, posted on Wednesday night , has only further enraged tribal leaders who recently called on law enforcement officials to protect native cultural resources at the refuge and to criminally prosecute the militiamen.
(6) The Greece midfielder Giannis Maniatis was so enraged after a training ground spat that he booked a himself on a flight back to Athens before being persuaded not to walk out on Fernando Santos’s squad.
(7) The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.
(8) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
(9) Death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor likely to enrage Pakistan Read more The US secretary of state, John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar on Sunday, said Mansoor “posed a continuing imminent threat to US personnel in Afghanistan , Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces” and members of the US and Nato coalition.
(10) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(11) The official version that the Ayotzinapa students were executed, burned in a landfill near Cocula and their ashes thrown to the winds has enraged people still more.
(12) The objections are likely to further enrage the Bush administration, which responded with fury to a comment by Mr Straw on Friday that the "axis of evil" speech was more of a vote-winning tactic in forthcoming US elections than a military strategy.
(13) The decision to turn a distant duke into a knight downunder suggests a prime minister who is tone deaf or worse, complacent in his power to push through a personal preference indifferent to the fact that it is bound to enrage and bewilder many.” Devine said it was Credlin’s job to stop her boss making such a blunder and suggested it was time to replace her with the Australian’s own associate editor Chris Kenny.
(14) (In fact, Vicky got it from all directions: a cartoon for Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in the 1950s calling for the abolition of the death penalty so enraged a doctor in Harrow that he wrote to the paper lamenting the fact that Vicky and his family managed to escape from Nazi Germany 25 years earlier.)
(15) Videla did his best to sink into quiet obscurity, leading an austere existence marred only by occasional outbursts against him by enraged passersby who recognised him in the street.
(16) Whatever money is needed for it will be spent,” declared British prime minister David Cameron – Mr Austerity himself – when large parts of the UK were underwater from historic flooding in February 2014 and the public was enraged that his government was not doing more to help.
(17) Palestinians were enraged by footage showing the wounded Ahmed lying on the ground after the attack, as bystanders yell at him: “Die!”.
(18) In his interview, his father told the Guardian: “I don’t know if he had any connections to Isis.” Seddique Mateen also played down the significance of his widely reported remarks in a previous interview in which he recounted how his son had once become enraged at the sight of two men kissing.
(19) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Enraged by the revelations of Libor-rigging by some RBS traders?
(20) This awkward fact seems to enrage Trump, the Saudis and Isis in equal measure.