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aggravator
noun
One who or that which aggravates.
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It was supposed to be a cure for my neuroses but ended up being an aggravator.
I'm an aggravator, in that sense, toward some of the characters.
Much of the family's wealth has come from OxyContin, the prescription painkiller launched in 1996 that has been a major aggravator in the opiod crisis in the US.
That way, they would be at least debt neutral, rather than perpetuate the current situation, where Congress's lack of discipline causes them to be a debt aggravator.
MetaCritic, an online review aggravator, has assigned some fairly dreadful scores to television-inspired video games; other reviews have been merely tepid.
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Proof of mental instability, for instance, is a mitigating factor that may spare a defendant the death penalty; "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel" violence is one of the ten aggravators encoded in Alabama law that may do the opposite.
Study after study and report upon report looks at more particular reasons for obesity and excess pounds, focusing on the edges and the aggravators of the problem instead of the flabby core.
Bill Drummond, the face of UK's The KLF, performance artist and one of the world's largest pop culture aggravators, is doing just that… One of the world's biggest rock stars… was this ironic?
But aggravators can also include the killing of children, murder that involves torture and the murder of a police officer.
They try to prove what are called aggravators, acts that make a murder more heinous.
Jurors are asked to weigh the aggravators against the mitigators and decide which, in the end, tip the scale.
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