Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers Section II. Personal Affections 1. Passive Affections 835. Aggravation.
NOUN: AGGRAVATION, heightening; exacerbation; exasperation; overestimation [See Overestimation ]; exaggeration [See Exaggeration ]. VERB: AGGRAVATE, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate, acerbate, exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.excite ) [See Excitation ]; go from bad to worse (deteriorate ) [See Deterioration ]. ADJECTIVE: AGGRAVATED &c. v.; worse, unrelieved; aggravable [obs. ], aggravative, aggravating &c. v. ADVERB: out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse. INTERJECTION: so much the worse! tant pis! [F. ]. QUOTATIONS: When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.—Hamlet
One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow.—Mrs. Gummidge, in David Copperfield
