🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

aggravare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aggravare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Aggravate/ˈæɡ.rə.veɪt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Questo errore non farà che aggravare la situazione."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a problem, injury, or offense worse or more serious.

    "Stressing the knee too soon can aggravate the injury."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 17th century: from Latin aggravat- 'made heavy', from the verb aggravare, from ad- 'to' + gravis 'heavy'.

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