ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. Heaped up, charged. Obs.
1603. Greenwey, Tacitus, Ann., IV. vi. (1622), 96. For other things aggrauated against him, he was arraigned.
† 2. Increased, magnified. Obs. in gen. sense.
1548. Hall, Chron. Edw. V. (R.). Small matters aggrauated with heinous names.
1727. Thomson, Summer, 1121. Follows the loosen’d aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling.
3. Increased in gravity or seriousness: made worse, or more grievous; intensified in evil character.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. xxvii. 117. This Sacriledge or Sacrilegious act committed by Ananias is … partly aggravated by the inexcusableness thereof.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 472, ¶ 1. A poor Man in the Agony of Pain, aggravated by Want and Poverty.
1810. Southey, Kehama, I. vii. Wks. VIII. 5. For who could know What aggravated wrong Provoked the desperate blow!
1862. Stanley, Jewish Ch. (1877), I. v. 101. Calamities … exhibited here in aggravated forms.
4. fam. Exasperated, incensed, irritated, provoked.
1611. Cotgr., Aggravanté, aggravated, exasperated.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, 516. ‘I’m very much obliged to you, Misses Brown,’ said the unfortunate youth, greatly aggravated.
