Question

aggravate She went back to the soccer team before the knee was completely healed, which naturally aggravated the injury. ˈægrəˌveɪt

Accepted Answer

(1) To make (an injury, problem, etc.) more serious or severe. (2) To annoy or bother. Since the grav- root means basically “weighty or serious,” the original meaning of aggravate was “to make more serious.” A bad relationship with your parents can be aggravated by marrying someone who nobody likes, for example, or a touchy trade relationship between two countries can be aggravated by their inability to agree on climate-change issues. Depression can be aggravated by insomnia—and insomnia can be aggravated by depression. But when most people use aggravate today, they employ its “annoy” sense, as in “What really aggravates my dad is having to listen to that TV all day long.

word	aggravate
definition	(1) To make (an injury, problem, etc.) more serious or severe. (2) To annoy or bother.
eg_sentence	She went back to the soccer team before the knee was completely healed, which naturally aggravated the injury.
explanation	Since the grav- root means basically “weighty or serious,” the original meaning of aggravate was “to make more serious.” A bad relationship with your parents can be aggravated by marrying someone who nobody likes, for example, or a touchy trade relationship between two countries can be aggravated by their inability to agree on climate-change issues. Depression can be aggravated by insomnia—and insomnia can be aggravated by depression. But when most people use aggravate today, they employ its “annoy” sense, as in “What really aggravates my dad is having to listen to that TV all day long.
IPA	ˈægrəˌveɪt

Aggravated Aggravate Make Relationship Injury Problem Severe Annoy