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EXACERBATES


Meanings
  • Verb

    To make something worse; aggravate.

    - "His constant criticism exacerbates her anxiety."
    - "The heat exacerbates my asthma."

Rhymes
Words rhyming with EXACERBATES
acerbate , abate , ate , bate , fate
Variants
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exacerbate , exacerbated , exacerbates , exacerbating , exacerbation , exacerbations
Etymology
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From the Latin word exacerbare, meaning to heat up or inflame.


Trivia
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  1. Exacerbates is the third-person singular form of the verb exacerbate.

  2. The word exacerbate comes from the Latin word exacerbare, which means 'to heat up or inflame'.

  3. Exacerbates is a versatile word that can be used in various contexts, from medical to everyday language.


Related Concepts
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  1. aggravate: A synonym of exacerbate, meaning to make something worse.

  2. irritant: A substance or situation that exacerbates a condition or feeling.


Quotes
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  1. … the sway that pack journalism holds on the Beltway press corps persists. The Crowd is never so influential as in the ever-lengthening season of presidential campaigns. The feverish obsessions of the blogosphere have only "exacerbated" the phenomenon: Now the herd just turns faster in pursuit of some ginned-up "controversy" or faux scandal.

    - {it}Editor & Publisher{/it},April 2007
  2. The declining retirement security faced by growing numbers of Americans is being "exacerbated" by increasing longevity and quickly rising health care costs.

    - Jeff Madrick,{it}New York Review of Books{/it},20 Mar. 2008

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