transitive. To aggravate, make more grave.

transitive. To make more grave or serious; (also) to exaggerate; = aggravate, v. 4 2. Cf. aggrege, v. 3a 4. Obsolete.

transitive. = aggravate, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To make graver or more serious, to aggravate.

transitive. gen. To increase the gravity or seriousness of (suffering, a problem, etc.), to make more grievous or burdensome; to make worse…

To add heat or fuel to, to aggravate, augment in violence, exacerbate.

To increase the fierceness or violence of (a disease, pain, appetite, etc.). Now with mixed notion of 3, 4.

To increase, aggravate. Obsolete.

transitive. To increase the smart of (a pain), the virulence of (disease), the bitterness of (feeling, speech, etc.); to embitter, aggravate. Also…

To make sharp or sharper (in various transferred and figurative senses of the adjective). Now… To render more painful, to aggravate (pain or…

transitive. To make sharp, to intensify. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. To increase or complicate (a difficulty, etc.); to augment.