heightening

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heightening

accelerando, acceleration, aggrandizement, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, ballyhoo, beefing-up, big talk, blowing up, blowup, burlesque, caricature, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, dilatation, dilation, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation, excess, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heating-up, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification, irritation, magnification, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pickup, population explosion, prodigality, profuseness, provocation, puffery, puffing up, redoubling, reinforcement, sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening, touting, travesty, worsening

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heightening

Aggravation

N aggravation, worsening, heightening, exacerbation, exasperation, overestimation, exaggeration, aggravated, worse, unrelieved, aggravable, aggravating, out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse, Int, so much the worse!.