Aggravate vs. Exasperate: What's the Difference?

To make worse or more troublesome

To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.

To annoy or exasperate

To increase the gravity or intensity of

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.

(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.

(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.

To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.

Exasperated; imbittered.

(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.

To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

Exasperate or irritate

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

Make furious

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.

Make worse;

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

Make worse;

Exasperate or irritate