exacerbating

Meanings

• verb

  making a situation worse

  - "His constant criticism exacerbated her anxiety."
  - "The heat exacerbated her sunburn."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with exacerbating
exasperating , incubating , collaborating

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Variants

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exacerbate , exacerbated , exacerbates , exacerbating , exacerbation , exacerbations

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Forms

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exacerbates, exacerbated, exacerbating

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Etymology

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from the Latin exacerbare, to inflame, provoke, or heighten

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Trivia

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1. Exacerbating is a 10-letter word.

2. Exacerbating is often used in medical contexts to describe how a condition or symptom worsens.

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Related Concepts

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1. aggravating: Similar to exacerbating, but implies making a situation more annoying or irritating.

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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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Culture

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Exacerbating has been used in literature and art to depict the worsening of situations or emotions. For example, in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel 'Crime and Punishment', the protagonist's guilt and remorse are exacerbated by his growing obsession with his crime.

How to Memorize "exacerbating"

1. mnemonics
   

   - To remember the meaning of exacerbating, think of the word as 'making it worse, escalating the situation'.

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