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
