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Exacerbate vs. Exasperate

Exacerbate and Exasperate Definitions

Exacerbate

To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
A speech that exacerbated racial tensions.
A heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.

Exasperate

To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.

Exacerbate

(transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate.
The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.

Exasperate

To increase the gravity or intensity of
"a scene ... that exasperates his rose fever and makes him sneeze" (Samuel Beckett).

Exacerbate

To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Exasperate

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

Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain

Exasperate

(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.

Exacerbate

Exasperate or irritate

Exasperate

Exasperated; imbittered.
Like swallows which the exasperate dying yearSets spinning.

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.

Exasperate

To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
To exasperate the ways of death.
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Exasperate

Exasperate or irritate

Exasperate

Make furious

Exasperate

Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain

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