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Definition of Exasperating
1. Adjective. Extremely annoying or displeasing. "The ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"
2. Adjective. Making worse.
Definition of Exasperating
1. Verb. (present participle of exasperate) ¹
2. Adjective. That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exasperating
1. exasperate [v] - See also: exasperate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exasperating
Literary usage of Exasperating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... reigned in the Imperial court, were mutually apprehensive of alienating, and
perhaps exasperating, the minds of a powerful, though declining faction. ..."
2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... the Sioux — Expiation of Crime — exasperating Forms of Torture. the dance has
ended, and many times when it is yet in progress, the tortures take place. ..."
3. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"... he charged the North with exasperating aggressions upon the South under pretence
of seeking only to prevent the extension of slavery beyond existing ..."
4. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"He betrays no symptom of an exasperating spirit, lurking behind the shelter of
prudence, and the screen of legal security. I believe there has been no ..."
5. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... of William's reign had been highly exasperating to the Scottish nation.
Not only had commercial enterprise been repressed, but this had been done in the ..."
6. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck (1904)
"—exasperating conduct of English troops.—Boston Massacre.—Day of fasting and
prayer.-—• 1771.—Civil and military officers.—Personal taxes. ..."
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