- to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.
- to annoy; irritate; exasperate: His questions aggravate her.
- to cause to become irritated or inflamed: The child's constant scratching aggravated the rash.
- to make (a disease, situation, problem, etc) worse or more severe
- to annoy; exasperate, esp by deliberate and persistent goading
