| 单词 | exasperate |
| 释义 | exasperate (once / 602 pages) v To exasperate someone is to annoy him or her to the point of impatience, frustration and irritation, like when you exasperate a busy waiter by asking questions like "what are all the ingredients in the salad dressing?" and making him repeat the specials five times. The verb exasperate comes from the Latin word exasperatus, which means “to roughen,” “irritate,” or “provoke.” To exasperate is to make something that is already bad even worse, like when sitting in traffic that is sure to make you late, you exasperate the person who is driving by bringing up an unpleasant topic, or the addition of twenty more students that exasperates the crowding in the cafeteria. WORD FAMILYexasperate: exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, exasperation+/exasperated: exasperatedly/exasperating: exasperatingly/exasperation: exasperations USAGE EXAMPLES“Some of that was because Clay County was in bad situation before the flood and then exasperated by the flood.” Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Many Japanese scholars, exasperated by Tokyo’s studied forgetfulness, are joining foreign critics in insisting on the same thing. Time(Dec 26, 2016) The breaches mainly represent a new form of crime whose costs are exasperating but manageable. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) 1v make furious Syn|Hyper incense, infuriate anger make angry 2v annoy or irritate Syn|Hyper aggravate, exacerbate anger make angry 3v make worse Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper aggravate, exacerbate, worsen ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better ameliorate, better, improve, meliorateget better irritate excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame inflamecause inflammation in cheapen, degradelower the grade of something; reduce its worth devaluate, devalueremove the value from; deprive of its value chafe, fret, gallbecome or make sore by or as if by rubbing itch, rub, scratchscrape or rub as if to relieve itching alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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