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Definition of Aggravating
1. Adjective. Making worse.
Definition of Aggravating
1. a. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
Definition of Aggravating
1. Verb. (present participle of aggravate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aggravating
1. aggravate [v] - See also: aggravate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggravating
Literary usage of Aggravating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Aggravating circumstances.—The following aggravating conditions in connection
with gambling have become the subject of legislation: (a) Common gamblers. ..."
2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Aggravating circumstances.—The following aggravating conditions in connection
with gambling have become the subject of legislation : (a) Common gamblers. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The participial adjective aggravating has seldom bee used to mean anything
except “annoying” since tli middle third of the 19th century; it may have been, ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"perance, and patience be known unto all men in the seed of God. For 4 that which
reacheth to the aggravating part without life, sets up the ag- 4 ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Passengers by Norman Fetter (1897)
"SAME—Aggravating CIRCUMSTANCES. Aggravating circumstances may exist which impel
courts to declare an attempt to get on or off a moving train negligence per ..."
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