aggravates
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Examples
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.
On natural selection: "Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance."
No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
[T]here must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.
Government doesn't cure problems. It aggravates them.