transitive verb. To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.

transitive verb. To increase the gravity or intensity of.

Irritated; inflamed.

In botany, rough; covered with hard, projecting points.

To irritate to a high degree; make very angry; provoke to rage; enrage: as, to exasperate an opponent.

To incite by means of irritation; stimulate through anger or rage; stir up.

To make grievous or more grievous; aggravate; embitter: as, to exasperate enmity.

To augment the intensity of; exacerbate: as, to exasperate inflammation or a part inflamed.

Synonyms Provoke, Incense, Exasperate, Irritate; vex, chafe, nettle, sting. The first four words all refer to the production of angry and generally demonstrative feeling. Irritate often has to do with the nerves, but all have to do with the mind. Provoke is perhaps the most sudden; exasperate is the strongest and least self-controlled; incense stands second in these respects.

To increase in severity.

adjective. Exasperated; imbittered.

transitive verb. To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of.

transitive verb. To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter.

verb. To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.

verb. make furious

verb. exasperate or irritate

verb. make worse

"North and encouraged the desperate foe by efforts at peace-parties, conciliations, outcries for amnesty, and entreaties not to 'exasperate' the enemy."

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abashed  angry  apprehensive  bemused  contemptuous  

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