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Pest vs Aggravation - What's the difference?

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Pest is a related term of aggravation.


As nouns the difference between pest and aggravation

is that pest is plague while aggravation is the act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

pest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  • An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  • An annoying person.
  • (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
  • Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

    Synonyms

    * (creature ) bug

    Anagrams

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    aggravation

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
  • Exaggerated representation.
  • An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
  • Synonyms

    * provocation, irritation.