Exacerbate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate: a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make worse (pain, anger, etc.) worse; aggravate.
  • v. To irritate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
    • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make worse
  • v. exasperate or irritate
    • Verb Form
    exacerbated    exacerbates    exacerbating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anger   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irritate    exasperate   
     
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