Definition of "aggravated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of aggravate. (verb)

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• "The term "aggravated felony" alone has been the subject of many federal court interpretations."
• "Congress should also clarify the meaning of the term aggravated felony so as to limit mandatory deportations to those found guilty of serious crimes, especially crimes of violence, and to clarify the situations in which U.S. attorneys and immigration judges will be allowed to consider alternative penalties."
• "Mr Bahati now says he has rewritten the bill to remove the death penalty provision, leaving life imprisonment as the maximum sentence for what he calls "aggravated homosexuality.""