figurative. To influence the character or quality of (an experience, situation, action, work, etc.)… transitive. To introduce a bitter…

To make more grievous or painful; to aggravate. Also, to represent as worse; to exaggerate, magnify. Obsolete.

transitive. gen. To increase the gravity or seriousness of (suffering, a problem, etc.), to make more grievous or burdensome; to make worse…

To provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, embitter.

To increase, aggravate. Obsolete.

transitive. To increase the smart of (a pain), the virulence of (disease), the bitterness of (feeling, speech, etc.); to embitter, aggravate. Also…

transitive. To make graver or more serious, to aggravate.

To make sharp or sharper (in various transferred and figurative senses of the adjective). Now… To render more painful, to aggravate (pain or…

figurative. To make more bitter or painful.

transitive. To make sharp, to intensify. Obsolete. rare.

To intensify, aggravate (conditions, etc.), abnormally; to make (physical features, etc.) of abnormal size.