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exacerbate, v.|ɛgz-, ɛkˈsæsəbeɪt|
[f. L. exacerbāt- ppl. stem of exacerbā-re, f. ex- intensive + acerb-us harsh, bitter, grievous.]
1. trans. To increase the smart of (a pain), the virulence of (disease), the bitterness of (feeling, speech, etc.); to embitter, aggravate. Also, to embitter or sour the feelings of (a person); to irritate, provoke.
1660Hist. Wars Scot. under Montrose App. 206 The Ministers never ceased to exacerbate his misery. 1755in Johnson. 1818Art Preserv. Feet 11 The radical cause of the complaint is often attributed to that which..merely exacerbates the pain. 1843Poe Gold Bug Wks. 1864 I. 56, I thought it prudent not to exacerbate the growing moodiness of his temper. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. viii. 102 Exacerbated by disappointment..he had let loose his rage and passion. 1876J. Weiss Wit, Hum. & Shaks. vii. 243 A woman's language becomes exacerbated because she is so inadequate to protest by actions.
2. intr. for refl.
1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 410/1 The feverish symptoms disappear or remit soon to recur or exacerbate. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iv. v, The sour doubting humour has had leave to accumulate and exacerbate.
Hence eˈxacerbated ppl. a.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Exacerbated, provoked or vexed, afresh. 1804Miniature No. I. (1806) I. 6 The ponderous dignity of the Rambler would, with ‘exacerbated’ severity, lament the sad degeneracy of the present day, etc. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxvi. (1856) 326 The disease had come back with..exacerbated virulence. 1857G. Gilfillan in Waller & Denham's Poems 208 Butler, then a disappointed and exacerbated man, was malignant enough to lampoon him for lunacy. |