aggravate

• vt.悪化させる；悪化させる；怒らせる

接頭辞ag-はad-と同じで、to, toward。grav（重さ）の語源については、gravity（重力）を参照のこと。

aggravate

aggravate: [16] Aggravate originally meant literally ‘to weigh down’ or ‘to make heavier’ (it was modelled on Latin aggravare ‘to make heavier’, which in turn was based on gravis ‘heavy’, source of English gravity and grief; its first cousin is aggrieve [13], which came via Old French agrever). From the first it was generally used in a metaphorical sense, and by the end of the 16th century the meaning ‘to make worse’ was well established. The sense ‘to annoy’, which some purists still object to, dates from at least the early 17th century.
=> grave, gravity, grief

aggravate (v.)

1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from past participle adjective aggravate "burdened; threatened" (late 15c.), from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy" (see aggravation). Earlier in this sense was aggrege (late 14c.). Meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; that of "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s.

To aggravate has properly only one meaning -- to make (an evil) worse or more serious. [Fowler]

Related: Aggravated; aggravating. Phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790.

1. Pollution can aggravate asthma.

汚染は喘息を増悪させる。

2.Men aggravate me when they go on about how impractical women are.

男たちが女がいかに非現実的なのか絶えず話しているときに私は腹を立てた。

3.Threats will only aggravate her.

恐喝は彼女を怒らせるしかない。

4.Don 't aggravate me,child.

子供、私を怒らせないで。

5.If the reports are well founded，the incident could seriously aggravate relations between the two nations.

これらの報道が根拠であれば、この事件は両国間の関係を深刻に悪化させる可能性がある。