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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of exacerbate.
Examples
“I think this ambition was fired - or perhaps exacerbated is a better word - by early marginal contacts with the Great, when we were evacuated to the English Lakes during the war.”
“Last night Snow Hydro CEO Terry Charlton denied reports it had "exacerbated" the flood situation, claiming its dams were full, and said that the company had tried to "mitigate”
“These problems are exacerbated by a series of decisions by the conservatives on the Supreme Court and a law enacted by the conservatives in Congress that make it much harder for individuals, even wrongly convicted ones, to gain relief from the federal courts.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“The IMF managing director said straight out what the central bankers could only hint at, that the "dangerous new phase" into which the world economy is entering is exacerbated by the fact that "policy makers do not have the conviction" to take the decisions necessary to meet the crisis.”
The Wall Street Journal: Telling World's Bankers How it Really Is
“While other DPJ leaders moved away from plans to raise the national sales tax to ease the debt burden as the March 11 disasters exacerbated Japan's economic woes, Mr. Noda dug in his heels.”
The Wall Street Journal: Yoshihiko Noda Is Low-Key Politician With Hawkish Bent
“It has exacerbated the removal of parents from the public education square.”
“Edith struggled to deal with the financial unpredictability, and this exacerbated her boozing, which put a constant strain on my father.”
“In reality, when you're talking about the fear, anger, and frustration generated from poverty and exacerbated by drugs, territorial conflict, and just plain ego, a more empathetic approach is probably better.”
“These stocks have now been exhausted, and conditions will further deteriorate as hunger increases and respiratory diseases are exacerbated by the rains.”
The Guardian: Sudan's unfinished business: fighting in Southern Kordofan
“As a result, ultraloose Fed policy has exacerbated the dichotomy between profit and growth.”
The Wall Street Journal: More Liquidity Only Douses Growth Sparks
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illuminate, obscure, invalidate, temperance, notoriety, eminence, tumultous, providential, dispassionate, precariously, relentlessly, trifling and 48 more...
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Revised GRE Words
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graduate school words
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