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Example sentences for "aggravation"

Lexicographically close words:
aggravate; aggravated; aggravates; aggravating; aggravatingly; aggravations; aggregate; aggregated; aggregates; aggregating
  1. She made his blush deepen, but the aggravation was a relief.

  2. The maids and the men looked blank; the effect of which on my nerves was an aggravation until I saw the necessity of making it a positive aid.

  3. But it was marked by an aggravation of its own, not less culpable, and unfortunately only too frequently characteristic of the homicides perpetrated by Europeans on natives in this country.

  4. That evening closed in with an aggravation of suffering.

  5. He was a source of genuine aggravation and annoyance.

  6. It was always an aggravation to Jacops, the way that miserable old thing acted.

  7. So great effects may be said to postulate adequate causes; and one must assume that the virus had been bred from cadaveric decomposition in circumstances of peculiar aggravation and on some vast or national scale.

  8. It is probable from the entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that the aggravation (for which we must always look in order to explain a historical famine and pestilence) was due to two bad harvests in succession.

  9. Probably the epidemic at Tiverton was due to aggravation of the usual circumstances of war.

  10. It is no small aggravation of their offence, in our eyes, that the figures should be drawn in such graceful positions, and with the exception of the defective proportions, with so much skill.

  11. The aggravation of that chap sir, has exceeded anything you can imagine, it has indeed.

  12. Instantly, in aggravation of the former solecism, an overpowering sense of the world's downright positive falsity comes over him; the world seems to lie saturated and soaking with lies.

  13. Conventional consolations, conventional verses out of the Bible, and conventional prayers are, it seems to me, an intolerable aggravation of suffering.

  14. To be cheerful here would be an aggravation of every offence--and yet, perhaps, I am wrong.

  15. What an aggravation is this of the loss of liberty!

  16. The prosecution argued that truth of such criticism was an aggravation of the crime because it was more provoking of sedition, as found by Star Chamber cases.

  17. Because the tendency to cause quarrels was the essence of the crime, the truth of the libel was not a defense, but might be an aggravation of criminality.

  18. He went back into the lodge, to the disgust and aggravation of the young soldier, who rattled fiercely at the gate once more in his impatience.

  19. I had five miles to walkin a dark and rainy night: but how can I mention these trifling circumstances as any aggravation of my disappointment!

  20. Eighteen months later than our last date, the purpose grew very deliberate under an aggravation of his malady, and he seriously looked upon his own case as falling within the conditions of Lord Edward's exception.

  21. All experienced practitioners understand that certain constitutional conditions may pervert simple chills into congestive forms by producing prolongation or aggravation of the states of congestion always present in ordinary chills.

  22. Delirium is very rarely observed in adults, but frequently in children, though without aggravation of the other symptoms.

  23. In exceptional cases the eruption, after an intermission of a few days, reappears, generally with greater intensity and with an aggravation of the other symptoms.

  24. It is essentially a chronic disorder, the affected patch remaining unchanged for months at a time, and then exhibiting aggravation in consequence of accidental exposure to heat or traumatism.

  25. We have already described the aggravation of all the symptoms which immediately precedes the crisis in typical cases of relapsing fever, and the abrupt fall of temperature, and usually of the pulse, that follows.

  26. Along with these phenomena intense itching is often felt at the situation of the pock, being an aggravation of the pruritus that in a mild {460} form accompanies the greater part of the whole course of the lesion.

  27. The patient has been progressing favorably with the scarlet fever, till on a certain day a marked aggravation of symptoms occurs.

  28. Its perniciousness is due to an aggravation or sheer exaggeration of the cold stage of an intermittent attack.

  29. When it begins, it intensifies the febrile movement and produces general aggravation of symptoms.

  30. He dwells on one aggravation of their crime which I should not have thought of.

  31. It was a serious aggravation of his guilt that he had been one of the very first persons who took the oaths to William and Mary.

  32. The first time the evidence of her ears had been enough to quiet her; this time, in the tenfold aggravation of her suspicion and her alarm, she was determined to have the evidence of her eyes as well.

  33. His wife's jealousy of him is as monstrous a delusion as any that could be found in a mad-house; it is the growth of her own vile temper, under the aggravation of an incurable illness.

  34. If it was an aggravation of my crime to have chosen an innocent subject, what would the learned counsel have said if I had chosen a guilty one?

  35. Strange as it may appear to your Lordships, there remains to be stated an aggravation of his crimes, and of his victims' misery.

  36. Would you consider it possible, my Lords, that there could be an aggravation of such a case as you have heard?

  37. He says I may have it if I have a mind," said the Rector curtly, betraying a little aggravation in his tone.

  38. When the obstruction is complete, a retention cyst forms in which suppuration is liable to occur, causing marked aggravation of the symptoms.

  39. The occurrence of hæmorrhage into the substance of the goitre or into a cyst, produces a sudden aggravation of the symptoms.

  40. Further, the transition from the abducted to the adducted position usually follows upon such an aggravation of the symptoms that the patient is no longer able to walk without the assistance of a crutch.

  41. Restriction of the movements of abduction and adduction, the presence of cracking and of grating of the articular surfaces, and the aggravation of the pain and stiffness after resting the limb, are characteristic of arthritis deformans.

  42. Glioma is usually met with in the young; it tends to grow slowly at first, but may take on a rapid growth at any time, and hæmorrhage is liable to occur into the substance of the tumour, causing a sudden aggravation of the symptoms.

  43. A sudden and serious aggravation of symptoms may result from hæmorrhage into a soft tumour, such as glioma.

  44. Pressure on the popliteal vessels is a serious aggravation of the injury, and adds greatly to the difficulties of treatment.

  45. We had played at Gibraltar with balls the size of a walnut, on a table like a public square--and in both instances we achieved far more aggravation than amusement.

  46. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  47. Fight from the first the symptoms of predisposing and occasional causes, because if aggravation be prevented recovery is possible.

  48. The object very often thus secured is double; aggravation has been prevented, amelioration has been obtained.

  49. In addition to its effects directly upon the nervous system, tea tends to check both stomach and bowel digestion, and thus increases the self-poisoning which is so prominent a cause, consequence, and aggravation of these nervous conditions.

  50. Accordingly they got a Painter by the Knight's Directions to add a pair of Whiskers to the Face, and by a little Aggravation to the Features to change it into the Saracen's Head.

  51. This also is an heinous Aggravation of his Offence, that he is inflicting Banishment upon me.

  52. I have frequently seen of this Sort of Fellows; and do not think there can be a greater Aggravation of an Offence, than that it is committed where the Criminal is protected by the Sacredness of the Place which he violates.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aggravation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceleration; affliction; aggravation; agitation; amplification; animation; annoyance; arousal; arousing; blight; bore; bother; bummer; care; concentration; condensation; consolidation; cross; curse; deepening; deterioration; devilment; difficulties; difficulty; disapproval; discontent; displeasure; dissatisfaction; dogging; drag; enhancement; enlargement; exacerbation; exaggeration; exasperation; excitement; exhilaration; explosion; fomentation; gall; harassment; hardship; headache; heightening; incitement; inconvenience; increase; inflammation; intensification; irritation; magnification; nuisance; persecution; perturbation; pest; pickup; plague; plight; pother; predicament; pressure; problem; reinforcement; rigor; souring; stimulation; stimulus; strengthening; stress; tightening; trial; tribulation; trouble; vexation; vicissitude; worry; worsening