| 单词 | exacerbate |
| 释义 | ex·ac·er·bate transitive verb 1. < foolish words exacerbating a quarrel > < all the frictions that exacerbated the long-drawn-out negotiations — Howard Taubman > 2. < her condition was exacerbated by lack of care > intransitive verb < what charms and consoles in the private house may distract and exacerbate in the public office — Virginia Woolf > — used chiefly as a participial adjective < exacerbating factors in modern life > Synonyms: < the injuries to his pride, exacerbated by her desertion of him — Edith Sitwell > < their prejudices have not been unduly exacerbated — Cabell Phillips > < the reduction of diseases may merely exacerbate the world's poverty and hunger by increasing the number of people — Eric Larrabee > < they may exacerbate rather than cure that unnatural craving for excess and novel thrills — J.D.Adams > embitter implies the making of an experience (especially a normally pleasant experience) unpleasant or of an unpleasant experience increasingly hard to endure or of a person bitter or resentful < the remoter outcome of the case was that competition was embittered rather than allayed — Times Literary Supplement > < his last years were embittered by disputes among his sons — Encyc. Americana > < violence … embittered the fight between capitalism and socialism — Stringfellow Barr > < the irresponsibility of privilege that embitters even men of goodwill — Time > sour implies a making or a becoming acidulous, hostile, resentful, peevish, or cynical < his heart was soured in his weary old hide, and his hopes had curdled in his breast — Amy Lowell > < they were almost truculent, as if they had been soured by heavy and unwelcome duties — John Buchan > < the anxiousness of some might sour to enmity under the acerbity of his attack — H.O.Taylor > < the condition of the city government soured most of the thinking citizens > |
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