aggravating circumstance

English

Noun

aggravating circumstance (plural aggravating circumstances)

(law, or general usage, chiefly in the plural) A factor that increases the culpability or deleterious consequences of a wrongful act.
Synonyms: aggravating factor, aggravation

Antonyms: extenuating circumstance, attenuating circumstance, mitigating circumstance, mitigating factor

Translations

a factor that increases the culpability or deleterious consequences of a wrongful act

Dutch: verzwarende omstandigheid f
Finnish: raskauttava asianhaara, raskauttava seikka
French: circonstance aggravante (fr) f
German: erschwerender Umstand m
Hungarian: súlyosbító körülmény, (in legal jargon) súlyosító körülmény
Italian: circostanza aggravante f
Polish: okoliczność obciążająca f
Russian: отягча́ющее обстоя́тельство n (otjagčájuščeje obstojátelʹstvo)

Further reading

“aggravating circumstance”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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