| 单词 | exacerbate |
| 释义 | exacerbate (once / 4905 pages) v For a formal-sounding verb that means to make worse, try exacerbate. If you're in trouble, complaining about it will only exacerbate the problem. Exacerbate is related to the adjective acrid, often used to describe sharp-smelling smoke. Think of exacerbate then as a sharp or bitter thing that makes something worse. A drought will exacerbate a country's food shortage. Worsen, intensify, aggravate and compound are similar, but exacerbate has the sense of an irritant being added in to make something bad even worse. WORD FAMILYexacerbate: exacerbated, exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbation+/exacerbation: exacerbations USAGE EXAMPLESPressure from Western powers and Japan exacerbated China’s bleak situation. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) The problem is exacerbated by how much power is concentrated in the presidency, relative to the legislature or to the judiciary. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In the past year, such attacks tended to exacerbate Turkey’s deep societal divisions. Time(Jan 01, 2017) 1v make worse Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper aggravate, exasperate, worsen ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better ameliorate, better, improve, meliorateget better irritate excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame inflamecause inflammation in cheapen, degradelower the grade of something; reduce its worth devaluate, devalueremove the value from; deprive of its value chafe, fret, gallbecome or make sore by or as if by rubbing itch, rub, scratchscrape or rub as if to relieve itching alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v exasperate or irritate Syn|Hyper aggravate, exasperate anger make angry |
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