exacerbate
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- 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
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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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- 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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/ (ĭg-zăsˈər-bātˌ)/
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