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aggravating factors

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

Things that make a symptom worse.

Movement was an aggravating factor for the back pain.

Topic: History taking in Medical English

Law noun

Features of an offence that increase its seriousness and tend to raise the sentence.

The use of a weapon and the vulnerability of the victim were treated as aggravating factors.

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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