aggravate verb
Category: abnormalcy: degrees of.
1604, Cawdrey: (aggrauate)
make more grievous, and more heauvie.
1626, Cockeram:
to make a thing worse by words.
1658, Phillips:
the same, also to burthen, or to make the worst of a thing in speaking of it.
1676, Coles:
L. to load, heighten, make heavy or worse.