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Gratify vs Aggrate - What's the difference?

gratify | aggrate |

As verbs the difference between gratify and aggrate

is that gratify is to please while aggrate is (obsolete) to gratify, cause pleasure to.

gratify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To please.
  • To make content, to satisfy.
  • Synonyms

    * gladden, queem

    Derived terms

    * gratification * gratifying

    Antonyms

  • To anger, disquiet, fluster, intimidate, or any of the like
  • aggrate

    English

    Verb

    (aggrat)
  • (obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
  • *:And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate , and greatest pleasures shew [...].