exacerbate

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  1. transitive verb To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate: a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.

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  • Users who remain logged in for days/weeks/months with Interleaf running the whole time exacerbate this problem. —  Sex, Lies, and Sociology
  • "How everybody's all pretending they know what in hell the word exacerbate means." —  Alvin Journeyman
  • So that can exacerbate or help develop a breast cancer. —  CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2008
  • Concern here at the White House that moving too quickly could only exacerbate, complicate some of the tensions involving the Mideast peace process. —  CNN Transcript May 23, 2006
  • HARRIS: Ah. That's -- exacerbate it. —  CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008
 

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  1. Latin exacerbāre, exacerbāt- : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + acerbāre, to make harsh (from acerbus, harsh; see ak- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin exacerbatus, past participle of exacerbare (later Italian esacerbare = Spanish Portuguese exacerbar), irritate, exasperate, from ex + acerbus, bitter: see acerb.
 

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/ɛgˈzæsərbeɪt/
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