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Definition of Exasperate

1. Verb. Exasperate or irritate. "The bad news will exasperate him"

2. Verb. Make furious. "The performance is likely to exasperate Sue"

3. Verb. Make worse. ; "This drug aggravates the pain"

Definition of Exasperate

1. a. Exasperated; imbittered.

2. v. t. To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

Definition of Exasperate

1. Verb. To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exasperate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exasperate

exarch exarchal exarchate exarchates exarchies exarchs exarchy exarillate exarteritis exarticulate

exarticulation exarticulations exascale exasecond exaseconds exasperate (current term) exasperated exasperatedly exasperater exasperaters

exasperates exasperating exasperatingly exasperation exasperations exaspidean exaton exatons exauctoration exauctorations

Literary usage of Exasperate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"... but the latter growing more and more insolent, as if determined to exasperate and insult the king, he went such lengths as to defend Parmenio publicly, ..."

2. A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett by William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick (1840)
"Their natural effect is to exasperate opponents and abate the zeal of friends. CONNECTION OF STATE WITH BANKING. [From the Plaindealer, May 6, 1837. ..."

3. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"That was to exasperate the savages, whet their thirst for revenge, and to stir them to greater insolence and warlike spirit, so that no interfere with his ..."

4. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"The root-and-branch men, meantime, continued to exasperate popular feeling against the Bishops, by prosecuting the charge concerning the canons, ..."

5. Memoirs & Travels of Sir John Reresby, Bart by John Reresby (1904)
"... it would look as if I had no power, and debase me into contempt; and that if I displaced too many, it might exasperate the city against me, ..."

6. Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation by John Strype (1822)
"Account of another *erman preached before her, to exasperate her against her Protestant subjects. 10 entertain the Queen's devotion this Lent, ..."

7. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 by Robert Walsh (1831)
"XIII. Irish and German Soldiers.—Strong Prejudices of the Brazilians.—Treatment of the Irish.—Means taken to exasperate them.—Mutiny among the Germans at S. ..."

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