aggravate

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aggravate

[ag´rah-vāt″]

to cause a patient's condition to deteriorate.

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At his trial he wanted to challenge potential jurors, arguing that jurors who are East Indian would feel a natural sympathy for the victim and this could aggravate or compound the potential for racial prejudice against him.

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As part of the President's authority to establish maximum sentences for an offense, the President has established certain facts that aggravate an offense and increase the maximum punishment.

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Tree-ring evidence, reconstructed rainfall over Durango, Mexico during the 16th century (6), adds support to the hypothesis that unusual climatic conditions may have interacted with host-population dynamics and the cocoliztli virus to aggravate the epidemics of 1545 and 1576.