Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of exacerbate.
Examples
“Currently, India is suffering through one of the worst ever outbreaks of Dengue Fever, which spreads through mosquitoes, exacerbated from a particularly harsh monsoon season.”
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“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.”
“Analysts said margin calls exacerbated the decline.”
“Although this is meant to be the future, Hawke's character is named Edward Dalton, a peculiarly Victorian sounding name exacerbated by the black top hat he always wears.”
“Though Obama lays the bulk of what he calls "a legacy of mismanagement and misplaced priorities" - at the feet of the Bush administration, there is no mistaking his larger message -- that the problems which were "exacerbated" by Bush's tax cuts and other pro-rich policies have been building since Reagan's 1981 inaugural declaration that "government is the problem.”
“A Minneapolis attorney said the city has "exacerbated" problems at the station over the years by being too involved”
“Hungarian policymakers "exacerbated" the country's fiscal situation, he said.”
“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”
“He said mankind has "exacerbated" global warming but the climate has always changed, for example in the warm periods between the ice ages, and there was a need for a more "grown up" discussion of the subject.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exacerbated’.
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English
experiential, extempore, extirpate, extrapolate, extricate, facistic, fallacious, fascistic, fastidious, flummoxed, frontispiece, fungible and 398 more...
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tralala's Words
arch, enigmatic, inexplicable, captivating, merry, advantageous, appropriate, compelling, alluring, wicked, inept, douse and 200 more...
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Revised GRE Words
buoyant, belies, belie, effervescence, recoil, theological, unblinking, mellifluous, medieval, empyrean, geologic, exemplar and 86 more...
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graduate school words
hegemonic, heteronormativity, discursively, racialization, trajectory, marginalization, formulation, exacerbated
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agustinolvera "Speaking of college applications, Edward, Charlie said, his tone even more sullen-he tried to avoid addressing Edward directly, and when he had to, it exacerbated his bad mood." Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page19 Oct 4, 2010