Aggravate vs Upset - What's the difference?
aggravate | upset |
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — .
To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
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(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
An stomach.
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(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9,
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
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To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
As verbs the difference between aggravate and upset
is that aggravate is to make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify while upset is to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.As an adjective upset is
angry, distressed, or unhappy.As a noun upset is
disturbance or disruption.aggravate
English
Verb
(aggravat)- To aggravate my woes. —
- To aggravate the horrors of the scene. —.
- The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. —Addison.
- If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
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- Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.
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
* heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, provoke, irritate, exasperate * See alsoExternal links
* * ----upset
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzyDerived terms
* upset priceNoun
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .
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- "collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets . And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
Synonyms
* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)Verb
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
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- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset ; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- ''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- with sail on mast upset