overaggravated

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ aggravated.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌəʊvəˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ver‧ag‧gra‧va‧ted

Adjective

overaggravated (comparative more overaggravated, superlative most overaggravated)

  1. (very rare) Overly aggravated.
    • 1956, United States Court of Appeals, Coastal Bend Television Company v. Federal Communications Commission, Gulf Coast Broadcasting‎[1], Robert I. Thiel, page 26:
      We quite agree that the problems of the UHF will not be solved by hysteria. Nor will they be solved, however, by precipitate action which can only serve to further aggravate a situation overaggravated with the result that a solution to the problem will be made all the more difficult.
    • 1962, Daily Independent Journal, Daily Independent Journal‎[2], Daily Independent Journal, page 5:
      An ulcer patient may have a period of some w e e k s[sic] or months without any symptoms at all. Then, when he has some minor infection, like a ccld, or when he is particularly over­ worked or overaggravated, or when he has neglected himself m some way, the symptoms will recur.
    • 1973, Edgar Cayce, The Edgar Cayce Readings‎[3], Association for Research and Enlightenment, page 36:
      In the blood supply — here we find there are the effects of the sympathetic reactions through the organs of digestion and assimilation, that produce poisons — by the times when the body becomes so overaggravated, so overexercised as to cause the poisons to be thrown into the system. . .
    • 1984, May Gruber, Pandora's Pride‎[4], Lyle Stuart, →ISBN, page 207:
      “The aorta is a bit enlarged, but that’s nothing to worry about—as long as you don’t get yourself overaggravated.
    • 2005, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Taking Wing‎[5], Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 133:
      Exercising at Vikr'l Prison wasn't an easy option. The prisoners were kept underfed and overaggravated, and any Reman who showed open contempt for the Romulan jailers was taken away and never heard from again.
    • 2017, Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon‎[6], Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 350:
      Medianoche took a page from his dead friend's playbook and observed with minimal intervention. Senorita Raven was overaggravated, as Medianoche had been, and Ibo the Nigerian supplied most of that frustration.

Verb

overaggravated

  1. simple past and past participle of overaggravate
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