exasperate or exacerbate

Exasperate is the act of provoking, vexing, frustrating, annoying a person or a being to a point where they can no longer ward it off.

"You seem exasperated, what is wrong with you?"

Exacerbate means to irritate and aggravate a situation, pain, injury/wound by worsening it.

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• resign vs re-sign
• phantom vs fathom
• champaign vs champagne
• tripple vs triple
• as less as possible vs as little as possible
• little own vs let alone
• ringer vs wringer
• curve your appetite vs curb your appetite
• peasant vs pheasant
• skiddish vs skittish

Definitions

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• v  exasperate or irritate
• v  make furious
• v  make worse

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• v  make worse
• v  exasperate or irritate

News & Articles

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• VIDEO: Man jokes with telemarketer, interrupts caller
  A man poses as an old woman to exasperate a telemarketer. For more go to youtube.com/jackvalefilms
  June 20, 2013 - Hattiesburg American
• VIDEO: Man jokes with telemarketer, interrupts caller
  A man poses as an old woman to exasperate a telemarketer. For more go to youtube.com/jackvalefilms
  June 20, 2013 - Hattiesburg American

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• Free Care in Ka‘u
  Inside the Ocean View Community Center, it was not uncommon for the U.S. Navy dentist to work steadily for hours with little to no breaks, inspecting residents’ mouths and addressing dental problems that, if left untreated, could exacerbate a variety of health conditions, even lead to life-threatening situations. Meanwhile, military optometrists conducted vision screenings and wrote ...
  June 13, 2013 - West Hawaii Today
• Free Care in Ka‘u
  Inside the Ocean View Community Center, it was not uncommon for the U.S. Navy dentist to work steadily for hours with little to no breaks, inspecting residents’ mouths and addressing dental problems that, if left untreated, could exacerbate a variety of health conditions, even lead to life-threatening situations. Meanwhile, military optometrists conducted vision screenings and wrote ...
  June 13, 2013 - West Hawaii Today
• Slidell officials say no drainage worries with Fremaux Town Center work
  Responding to the concerns of some residents that recent construction at the Fremaux Town Center retail area in Slidell will exacerbate drainage problems in the nearby Lakewood Subdivision, a group of Slidell city officials visited the construction site this week...
  June 12, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune