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🔵 Exacerbate or Exasperate - Exacerbate Meaning - Exasperate Examples - The Difference Explained

to exacerbate and to exasperate:

1) to exacerbate means to worsen, to aggravate - to make more serious. 

2) to exasperate means to annoy, to frustrate, to infuriate
Don't mix the two.

to exacerbate - to make stronger, to make more serious. 00:40
With 'exacerbate', you could have a noun, exacerbation.
Exacerbate is most commonly used as a verb.
For example:
(1) the development of the third world is exacerbating global warming. (it's making it more serious) 01:05

(2) exasperate (v) exasperation (n) exasperating - makes you feel frustrated. Exasperated - frustrated.
the rush hour traffic was really heavy, and many of the drivers were exasperated. (they felt growing exasperation) 01:40

(3) exacerbate - to make worse, to make more serious.
If you have a mosquito bite, it itches. But if you scratch it, normally it exacerbates the itch (makes you more serious)

(4) exasperate - to anger, to vex, to madden
the baby had been crying all night. And by the morning, both parents were exasperated.
the crying had been exasperating the parents.

(5) exacerbate - to aggravate
His rundown physical condition exacerbated the symptoms of the disease. (they made them stronger)
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(6) exasperate - frustrate.
the slow, cumbersome, administrative process exasperated many of the applicants.

(7) exacerbate - make more serious 3:01
the poverty of the country / the poverty in the country had been exacerbated by a civil war.