Definition of exacerbating | Bee Dictionary of English

Every new parent knows how difficult it can be to get a fussy baby to sleep, but new research suggests that a parent's best efforts may only be exacerbating the problem and .
Further exacerbating the problem are the current record prices for freight shipping brought on by record fuel prices.
Warm ocean temperatures are a key ingredient for monster hurricanes, prompting some scientists to believe that global warming is exacerbating our storm troubles.

Thousands flee as wildfires rip through Rockies
At least 3,600 people have been evacuated, as wildfires on Wednesday continued to rip through Colorado and parts of the Rockies, threatening to spread to at least three other states. Sixty homes — including million-dollar mansions — have been destroyed so far, Fox News reported. Wind gusts are exacerbating the ...
June 12, 2013 - The Washington Times
Study: Segregation persists in Chicago with hurdles to fair housing
Barriers to fair housing are exacerbating segregation in the Chicago area, according to a new study by the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Clinic. A team looked at housing discrimination cases between 2009-12 and found a 30 percent increase in clients who alleged ‘source of income’ discrimination. In housing terms, that’s when landlords turn down renters because they have subsidized ...
June 11, 2013 - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield
BAGHDAD (AP) — Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly chaos a year and a half after U.S. troops pulled out.
June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Pat Riley in Forbes
The next president must explain how he or she intends to bring that war to the swiftest possible conclusion without exacerbating a sectarian conflict that could quickly descend into genocide, destabilizing the entire Middle East, and enabling our... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ CNSNews.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp%3FPage%3D/Politics/archive/200803/POL20080305e.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFzvDOTyXWMXu2K6jVaUV25ZUK8SQ Mar 5, 2008 34741 44483 exacerbating His activity, the activity, is exacerbating it," Riley said. "That's all. That's what happens. He's trying to do everything he do. He's gotten all the treatment he can get. And now it's probably going to be an inactive period of time until...
Robert Zoellick in Washington Post
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, speaking on the sidelines of TICAD, said taxes and bans that have been enacted by a number of countries recently were "exacerbating the problem."

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