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- Dictionaryexacerbate/ɪɡˈzasəbeɪt/
verb
- 1. make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse: "the exorbitant cost of land in urban areas only exacerbated the problem"
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EXACERBATE definition: 1. to make something that is already bad even worse: 2. to make something that is already bad even…. Learn more.
The meaning of EXACERBATE is to make more violent, bitter, or severe. How to use exacerbate in a sentence. Did you know? Exacerbate vs. Exasperate
2 meanings: 1. to make (pain, disease, emotion, etc) more intense; aggravate 2. to exasperate or irritate (a person).... Click for more definitions.
Think of exacerbate then as a sharp or bitter thing that makes something worse. A drought will exacerbate a country's food shortage. Worsen, intensify, aggravate and compound are similar, but exacerbate has the sense of an irritant being added in to make something bad even worse.
Exacerbate definition: To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate.
EXACERBATE definition: to make something worse: . Learn more.
Exacerbate definition: to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. . See examples of EXACERBATE used in a sentence.
Definition of exacerbate verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
ex•ac•er•bate (ig zas′ ər bāt′, ek sas′ -), v.t., -bat•ed, -bat•ing. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate.
exacerbate meaning, definition, what is exacerbate: to make a bad situation worse: Learn more.