To aggravates is to make someone angry or frustrated. When you aggravates someone, you are usually doing something that is not reasonable or necessary.
He always aggravates his wife by talking on the phone while she's trying to work.
The noise from the party was really aggravating, and it was making it difficult to hear.
verb
exasperate or irritate
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verb
make worse
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Or worse, I might aggravate the disharmony.
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It's not worth the stress and aggravation.
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Exertion aggravates the symptoms.
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The trouble was aggravated badly.
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They're not worth the aggravation.
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Stop aggravating the reputation of the ancestry.
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He aggravated the situation at hand.
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The danger is only aggravated by interlopers.
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The doctor rather aggravated the pain.
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The following then becomes an aggravating circumstance.