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The art of making something worse, now usually just making someone furious.
means Describes anything that intensifies a problem, or more loosely, anything that annoys you to your bones.
from From Latin aggravare, to make heavier, via gravis, heavy — so an aggravating thing literally weighs you down before it ever irritated you.
Purists winceStrictly means worsen, not merely annoy.
Legal cousinAggravating circumstances make crimes graver, not just irksome.
Weight rootsShares gravis with gravity and grave.