英语词汇“exacerbate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINexacerbate

Origin:

1600-1700 Latin past participle of exacerbare, from acerbus ‘bitter’

VERB TABLE

exacerbate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	exacerbate
	he, she, it	exacerbates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	exacerbated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have exacerbated
	he, she, it	has exacerbated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had exacerbated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will exacerbate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have exacerbated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am exacerbating
	he, she, it	is exacerbating
	you, we, they	are exacerbating
Past	I, he, she, it	was exacerbating
	you, we, they	were exacerbating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been exacerbating
	he, she, it	has been exacerbating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been exacerbating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be exacerbating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been exacerbating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Howe's unkind remarks have exacerbated racial tensions in the community.
Ironically, the government's reassurances may have exacerbated fear about the disease.
The family's problems were exacerbated when Walter lost his job.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Financial problems have been exacerbated by declining enrollment.
Friction between the generations is exacerbated when younger staff grasp the new idea and their creativity is suddenly released.
The floods have been exacerbated by our stupidity.
The problem is further exacerbated by the prevailing view as to the nature and constituents of leadership in schools.
Their dilemmas are similar to those of many adoptive families but are exacerbated by the racial and ethnic issues already discussed.
Their speeches had a pitiful, pleading quality about them, exacerbating the problem.

Longman Language Activatorto make a bad or difficult situation worse► make things worse/make it worse

to make a bad or difficult situation even worse, especially when you were trying to improve it: · Don't interfere. You'll only make things worse.· Trying not to laugh aloud made it worse, and for a moment or two, they were both helpless with suppressed laughter.· Why not try running the anti-virus software? It can't make things any worse, can it?

► to make matters/things worse

use this to talk above something that makes a bad situation even worse: · To make matters worse, the director's gone on holiday without leaving anyone in charge.· To make things worse, Jimmy suddenly announced he'd left his passport at home.

► aggravate

to make a bad or difficult situation even worse: · Air pollution may aggravate a child's asthma.· Is the pain aggravated by coughing or laughing?· Any talk of price rises now will only aggravate an already serious situation.

► exacerbate

formal to make a bad or difficult situation even worse: · The family's problems were exacerbated when Walter lost his job.· Ironically, the government's reassurances may have exacerbated fear about the disease.

► compound

if something compounds a problem, mistake, or difficulty, it adds to the existing problem so that the general situation gets even worse than before: · Strong nationalist sentiment is compounding the deep political problems faced by the President.be compounded by: · John and Val's domestic problems were compounded by stress at work.· The effects of the East Coast snows this year were compounded by severe storms in the spring.

► to add insult to injury

use that to say that something makes a bad situation worse for someone, by unfairly giving them another problem that relates to or is a result of the original one: · The bank not only refused to refund the money but, to add insult to injury, charged me for the letter telling me so!

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► compound/exacerbate a problem

formal (=make it worse)· The country’s economic problems are compounded by its ageing population.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► further

· The problem is further exacerbated by the prevailing view as to the nature and constituents of leadership in schools.· Blue chips as a whole struggled under that burden, which was further exacerbated by fresh selling of telecom and media issues.· My habit of going for long walking and cycling trips alone further exacerbated my reputation for oddness.· Their problems were further exacerbated by the fact that many people took the Government at their word and simply stopped paying.· This is further exacerbated by the noise in many factories which makes conversation difficult and so relationships with others are diminished.· David Tindle recounts: Minton was further exacerbated by the groundswell of interest in abstract art forming at this time.

► only

· The pressures and prejudices which attend their activities and relationships only exacerbate their instability.· Also, computer industry trends toward distributed computing, and nomadic or mobile computer users, only exacerbate security challenges.· Government reaction only exacerbated the problem.

NOUN► conflict

· The political changes in both states have, if anything, exacerbated the conflict.

► fact

· Their problems were further exacerbated by the fact that many people took the Government at their word and simply stopped paying.· The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of the mines are now within built-up areas.

► problem

· The structure of modern social life merely exacerbates the problems faced by families.· They would exacerbate the problems of unbalanced power that threaten any cooperative relationship.· This will exacerbate the problem of deciding whether or not to prosecute.· However much they hated the loneliness, in some ways the new managers exacerbated the problem by their behavior.· Harsh weather and central heating make skin drier and cleaning with water can exacerbate the problem.· But this time the results have only compounded and exacerbated the problems of the Republican Party.· Dumping of excess inventory by some manufacturers has exacerbated the problem.· Unfortunately their efforts typically exacerbate the problem.

► shortage

· The situation was made worse by the 1986 earthquake, which exacerbated the housing shortage and destroyed or damaged numerous schools.· Market specialists said yesterday's price rises were exacerbated by a shortage of stock in many leading companies.· This exacerbated the growing shortage of food, fuel and raw materials.· Landlords believe that the Rent Acts unfairly interfere with freedom of contract and exacerbate the housing shortage.

► situation

· The current cuts in public expenditure will inevitably exacerbate this situation.· Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.· Stern warnings broadcast over the student public-address system in the evening of 8 October exacerbated the situation.· The damp conditions would exacerbate such a situation.

► tension

· Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces, the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.· We are not interested, frankly, in doing anything that would exacerbate the tensions.