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are aggravating
verb
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
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Demographic trends are aggravating this vicious cycle.
What factors are aggravating these conditions?
I know they're not serious, but they sure are aggravating.
Memory slips are aggravating, frustrating, and sometimes worrisome.
ReprintsHong Kong's economic woes are aggravating its sense of insecurity.
And even in the environment and energy arena, trade disputes are aggravating tensions.
Plans to ship Moscow's trash to the provinces are aggravating economic unrest.
The riots are aggravating a particularly nervous moment in Iran's long record of tension with Washington.
Leaders of the industrial world are glaring at Mexico, complaining that petroleum prices are aggravating inflation.
Small wonder the banks are complaining that Mr Bondi's tactics are aggravating.
That could not happen now, when biofuels are aggravating food shortages and exporters hoard supplies for their own people.
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