exacerbate
to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate.
Origin of exacerbate
1Other words for exacerbate
Opposites for exacerbate
Other words from exacerbate
- ex·ac·er·bat·ing·ly, adverb
- ex·ac·er·ba·tion [ig-zas-er-bey-shuhn, ek-sas-], /ɪgˌzæs ərˈbeɪ ʃən, ɛkˌsæs-/, noun
- un·ex·ac·er·bat·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with exacerbate
- exacerbate , exasperate
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How to use exacerbate in a sentence
Recently we have witnessed a frightening exacerbation of internal discord and an ominous intensification of inflammatory rhetoric.
Hence the dangerous exacerbation of the worst trends in American public life.
There was a slight intermission of symptoms and then an exacerbation.
Psychotherapy | James J. WalshHis death served still more to increase the exacerbation of the conquerors against the conquered.
Horse-Shoe Robinson | John Pendleton KennedyThis was immediately followed by a marked exacerbation of his psychotic manifestations.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry | Bernard Glueck
(iii) It is rarely required for acute frontal sinusitis, although it might be used in acute exacerbation of a chronic suppuration.
Where the fever was sharp, it usually remitted during the day, having its exacerbation in the night.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Creighton
British Dictionary definitions for exacerbate
/ (ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪt, ɪkˈsæs-) /
to make (pain, disease, emotion, etc) more intense; aggravate
to exasperate or irritate (a person)
Origin of exacerbate
1Derived forms of exacerbate
- exacerbation, noun
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