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词源

源自拉丁语 aggravatus，aggravare (“给……增重，使变差，使烦恼”)的过去分词，源自ad (“到”) + gravare (“使变重”)，源自gravis (“重的”)。参见grave，对比aggrieve、aggrege。

发音

• IPA^(帮助)：/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

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动词

aggravate（第三人称单数简单现在时 aggravates，现在分词 aggravating，一般过去时及过去分词 aggravated）

1. 使冒犯性增加 [自16世纪]
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance)，William Shakespeare，“The life and death of King Richard the Second”，出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio)，London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount，出版年份1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], 页号23, column 2:

     Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,
     With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte,
     And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue,
     What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue

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   • 1709 Joseph Addison, The Tatler

     The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.

2. (引申) 使恶化，使变差 [自16世纪]
   • 1726，Homer; [William Broome], transl.，“Book XVI”，出自 The Odyssey of Homer. […]，卷号IV，London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:

     to aggravate my woes.

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   • 1837, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

     […] to aggravate the horrors of the scene

3. (现在罕用) 使程度/重量增加 [自16世纪]

   He aggravated the story.

   他把事情夸大了。

4. (弃用) 使某人负担加重 [16–18世纪]
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:

     In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.

5. (现在基本用于口语) 激怒 [自16世纪]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:

     Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.

近义词

• (使变差)： heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, exacerbate
• (激怒)： provoke, irritate, exasperate

反义词

• (使变差)： alleviate, mitigate

相关词汇

• aggravation

拓展阅读

• aggravate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• aggravate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

动词

aggravate

1. aggravare的第二人称复数现在时直陈式
2. aggravare的第二人称复数命令式
3. aggravato的阴性复数

动词

aggravāte

1. aggravō的第二人称复数现在时主动态命令式