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• IPA: /ˌæɡɹəˈveɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

aggravation (countable and uncountable, plural aggravations)

1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

   Synonym: exacerbation

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound.

2. Exaggerated representation.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
4. (informal) A feeling of being provoked by irritation and annoyance; the feeling of being riled up or increasingly irritated.
   • 1968, Mac Davis, Billy Strange, “A Little Less Conversation”, performed by Elvis Presley:

     A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me

派生語

関連する語

• aggravate

Further reading

• “aggravation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “aggravation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aggravation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.