Exacerbate

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  • transitive verb. To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To increase the bitterness or virulence of; make more violent, as a disease, or angry, hostile, or malignant feelings; aggravate; exasperate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make worse (pain, anger, etc.) worse; aggravate.
  • verb. To irritate.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make worse
  • verb. exasperate or irritate
    • Word Usage
    ""How everybody's all pretending they know what in hell the word exacerbate means.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anger  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accelerate  acerbate  agent provocateur  aggravate  alienate  
    verb-form
    exacerbated  exacerbates  exacerbating  
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