Crossword clues for exacerbate
exacerbate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exacerbate \Ex*ac"er*bate\ ([e^]gz*[a^]s"[~e]r*b[=a]t; 277), v.
t. [imp. & p. p. Exacerbated
([e^]gz*[a^]s"[~e]r*b[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Exacerbating ([e^]gz*[a^]s"[~e]r*b[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L.
exacerbatus, p. p. of exacerbare; ex out (intens.) +
acerbare. See Acerbate.]
To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate;
to imbitter, as passions or disease.
--Brougham.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, a back-formation from exacerbation or else from Latin exacerbatus, past participle of exacerbare "irritate, provoke." Related: Exacerbated; exacerbating.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
WordNet
v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exasperate] [ant: better]
exasperate or irritate [syn: exasperate, aggravate]
Usage examples of "exacerbate".
The hysteria about the current boson formation which was being supported and exacerbated by religious leaders.
My morose mood is exacerbated by the fact that the four members of Clueless Crew are even chummier than usual.
Americans--the hunger for a better life--an end of rawness, newness, sourness, distressful and exacerbated misery, the taking from the great plantation of the earth and of America our rich inheritance of splendour, ease, and abundance--good food, and sensual love, and noble cookery--the warmth of radiant colour and of wine--pulse of the blood--an end of misery, bitterness, hunger and unrest upon the breast of everlasting plenty--the inheritance of exultancy and joy for ever, which some foul, corrosive poison in our lives--bitter enigma that it is!
The High Table on its dais was so far removed from the opposite end of the Hall that those who graced it could scarcely be expected to discern the countenances of those seated at the lower trestles, or even the central onesa state of affairs that, despite the blaze of countless girandoles, lusters, and candelabra, was exacerbated by the soft haze of steam and incense filling the air.
Roxbury derived some consolation for his exacerbated emotions from the fact that Jynx had not withdrawn from his embrace.
Hitlerites snarled and threatened, but rather against Poland than France, and when the tension became too great it found relief by outrages upon Communists, Pacificists and intellectuals and by an exacerbated persecution of those whipping-boys of the Western civilization, the Jews.
The excruciatingly prolonged nature of the repatriation process, together with Soviet unwillingness to provide accurate information about the number and identity of their prisoners, greatly exacerbated this animosity.
Her temper exacerbated by the treatment being meted out to her, Madame de Buys drew herself up.
And there, in exacerbating viciousness, the resharpened vision of the maze exposed an insidious, fresh twist: the geas of Desh-thiere had not been quiescent.
Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.
They were sorry, of course, for the failure of the local canneries around Kachemak Bay, exacerbated and accelerated by the urban renewal following the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake.
This mistake was exacerbated during his battle with the Silicon God when he had to compress himself, to prune his memory and programs down to the very simple remnants of Ede who haunted the devotionary computer.
The slanders of Sir Thomas exacerbate the feelings of Ricardians, but his prose is not particularly stimulating.
My morose mood is exacerbated by the fact that the four members of Clueless Crew are even chummier than usual.
To that end, some misguided souls have sought to exacerbate the differences between Awari and his sister.