different between madden vs aggravate
madden
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæd?n/
- Homophone: Madden
- Rhymes: -æd?n
Verb
madden (third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened)
- (transitive) To make angry.
- (transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become furious.
Antonyms
- tranquilize
Translations
Anagrams
- Dedman, damned, demand, manded
Middle English
Alternative forms
- maddyn, mad, madde, made, medd, medde
Etymology
From mad +? -en (“infinitival suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mad?n/
Verb
madden
- To be mad or insane; to be afflicted with insanity.
- To be emotionally overwhelmed or consumed by mood or feelings.
- To behave idiotically or stupidly; to display stupidity.
- (rare) To make mad, crazy or insane; to madden.
- (rare) To emotionally overwhelm.
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: mad (obsolete)
References
- “m??dden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-09.
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aggravate
English
Etymology
From Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare (“to add to the weight of, make worse, oppress, annoy”), from ad (“to”) + gravare (“to make heavy”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grave and compare aggrieve and aggrege.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?.??.ve??t/
Verb
aggravate (third-person singular simple present aggravates, present participle aggravating, simple past and past participle aggravated)
- To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]
- 1709 Joseph Addison, The Tatler
- The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
- 1709 Joseph Addison, The Tatler
- (by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate. [from 16th c.]
- 1837, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- […] to aggravate the horrors of the scene
- 1837, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- (now rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone. [16th–18th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:
- In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:
- (now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. [from 16th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
- If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:
- Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
Usage notes
Although the meaning "to exasperate, to annoy" has been in continuous usage since the 16th century, a large number of usage mavens have contested it since the 1870s. Opinions have swayed from this proscription since 1965, but it still garners disapproval in Garner's Modern American Usage (2009), at least for formal writing.
Synonyms
- (to make worse): heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, exacerbate
- (to exasperate): provoke, irritate, exasperate
- See also Thesaurus:annoy
Antonyms
- (to make worse): alleviate, mitigate
Related terms
- aggravation
Translations
Further reading
- aggravate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- aggravate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
aggravate
- second-person plural present indicative of aggravare
- second-person plural imperative of aggravare
- feminine plural of aggravato
Latin
Verb
aggrav?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of aggrav?
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