aggravate🔊

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. +

(by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse. +

(now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. +

(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) (on) or (upon) someone. +

(now chiefly colloquial; often proscribed) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. +

Aggravated.

Loaded, burdened, weighed down.

(in a bad sense) Heightened, intensified.

(religion) Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.