exacerbate

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Verb

exacerbate (third-person singular simple present exacerbates, present participle exacerbating, simple past and past participle exacerbated)

1. (transitive) To make worse (pain, anger, etc.) worse; aggravate.

   The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.

2. (transitive) To irritate.

Derived terms

• exacerbatingly
• exacerbation

Translations

to irritate

• Bulgarian: раздразвам (bg) (razdrazvam)
• Dutch: irriteren (nl)
• Finnish: ärsyttää (fi)
• French: irriter (fr)
• German: verärgern (de)

• Portuguese: exacerbar (pt)
• Russian: раздражать (ru) (razdražatʹ) (razdražát’)
• Swedish: förbittra (sv)
• Turkish: azdırmak (tr), sinirlendirmek (tr)

to make worse

• Bulgarian: влошавам (bg) (vlošavam)
• Dutch: verslechteren (nl), exacerberen (nl)
• Finnish: pahentaa (fi)
• French: agraver (fr), empirer (fr)
• German: erbittern (de), verschlimmern (de), verschärfen (de)

• Italian: esacerbare (it)
• Portuguese: exacerbar (pt)
• Russian: ухудшать (ru) (uxudšatʹ) (uxudšát’)
• Swedish: förvärra (sv), skärpa (sv)
• Turkish: kötüleştirmek (tr)

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• Latin: exacerbo
• Portuguese: exacerbar
• Spanish: exacerbar, agravar, avivar

See also

• exasperate

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Latin

Verb

exacerbāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exacerbō