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How to pronounce “aggravate”

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Pronunciation guide for aggravate

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of aggravate with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policingand every other ill that our broken criminal-legal systems aggravate.
Definition summary: To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]

Example 1 of 8

How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing

and every other ill that our broken criminal-legal systems aggravate.

[Verb]
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]
(by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse. [from 16th c.]
(now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone. [16th–18th c.]
(now chiefly colloquial; often proscribed; see usage notes) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. [from 16th c.]
[Adjective]
(as a participle) Aggravated.
Loaded, burdened, weighed down.
(in a bad sense) Heightened, intensified.
(religion) Under ecclesiastical censure, excommunicated.

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