Aggravate vs. Exasperate
Aggravate and Exasperate Definitions
Aggravate
To make worse or more troublesome
Aggravate political tensions.
Aggravate a medical condition.
Exasperate
To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
Aggravate
To annoy or exasperate
The child's whining aggravated me.
Exasperate
To increase the gravity or intensity of
"a scene ... that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" (Samuel Beckett).
Aggravate
To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
Exasperate
To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
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Aggravate
(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
Exasperate
(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
Aggravate
To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
He aggravated the story.
Exasperate
Exasperated; imbittered.
Like swallows which the exasperate dying yearSets spinning.
Aggravate
(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.
Exasperate
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 exsasperate them against the king of France.
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Aggravate
To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
Exasperate
To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
To exasperate the ways of death.
Aggravate
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
Exasperate
Exasperate or irritate
Aggravate
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
Exasperate
Make furious
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Aggravate
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
Exasperate
Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain
Aggravate
To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
Aggravate
Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain
Aggravate
Exasperate or irritate
