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Is aggravate a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word aggravate is a Scrabble US word. The word aggravate is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is aggravate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word aggravate is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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Yes. The word aggravate is a Words With Friends word. The word aggravate is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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9-letter words (1 found)

AGGRAVATE,

7-letter words (1 found)

AGGRATE,

6-letter words (8 found)

AVATAR,GARAGE,GARGET,GAVAGE,RAGTAG,RAVAGE,TAGGER,TAGRAG,

5-letter words (18 found)

AGATE,AGAVE,AGGER,AVERT,EGGAR,GAGER,GATER,GRATE,GRAVE,GREAT,RAGGA,REATA,RETAG,TARGA,TARGE,TAVER,TERGA,TRAVE,

4-letter words (34 found)

AGAR,AGER,AREA,AREG,ARET,AVER,GAGA,GAGE,GARE,GART,GATE,GAVE,GEAR,GEAT,GERT,GETA,GRAT,GRAV,RAGA,RAGE,RAGG,RATA,RATE,RAVE,TARA,TARE,TAVA,TEAR,TEGG,VARA,VARE,VEGA,VERA,VERT,

3-letter words (37 found)

AGA,AGE,ARE,ART,ATE,AVA,AVE,EAR,EAT,EGG,ERA,ERG,ETA,GAE,GAG,GAR,GAT,GER,GET,RAG,RAT,RAV,REG,RET,REV,TAE,TAG,TAR,TAV,TEA,TEG,VAE,VAG,VAR,VAT,VEG,VET,

2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AE,AG,AR,AT,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 111 words from aggravate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of aggravate

aggravate

Etymology

From Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”), from ad (“to”) + gravare (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

Verb

aggravate (third-person singular simple present aggravates, present participle aggravating, simple past and past participle aggravated)

  1. To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]
  2. (by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate. [from 16th c.]
  3. (now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. [from 16th c.]
  4. (obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone. [16th–18th c.]
  5. (now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. [from 16th c.]

Usage notes

Although the meaning "to exasperate, to annoy" has been in continuous usage since the 16th century, a large number of usage mavens have contested it since the 1870s. Opinions have swayed from this proscription since 1965, but it still garners disapproval in Garner's Modern American Usage (2009), at least for formal writing.

Synonyms

  • (to make worse): heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, exacerbate
  • (to exasperate): provoke, irritate, exasperate
  • See also Thesaurus:annoy

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “to make worse”): alleviate, mitigate

Derived terms

Related terms

  • aggravation

Translations

Further reading

  • “aggravate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “aggravate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

aggravate

  1. inflection of aggravare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

aggravate f pl

  1. feminine plural of aggravato

Anagrams

  • aggrevata

Latin

Verb

aggravāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of aggravō

Source: wiktionary.org