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    [Verb]  | "ex*ac*er*bate" | \ ig-ˈza-sər-ˌbāt \


    1: to make more violent, bitter, or severe


    Origin: 1660 ;

     Borrowed from Latin exacerbātus, past participle of exacerbāre "to irritate, exasperate, make worse," from ex- {see: |ex-:1|ex-:1} + acerbāre "to make bitter, make worse," verbal derivative of acerbus "acid, bitter, bitterly hostile, distressing" {mat|acerb|};

    [Verb]  | "exacerbating" 


    1: to make more severe;


      * e.g., " ... a misconceived plan that only exacerbated the city's traffic problem "





    [Verb]  | "exacerbate" 


    1: to make more severe;


      * e.g., " ... a misconceived plan that only exacerbated the city's traffic problem "





     [ "exacerbating" ]

    1: Making a current undesirable situation much more worse, especially if the situation could have been easily avoidable.

      * e.g.,  ... Tim's doctor said that he had already developed lung cancer, but Tim still decided to smoke, therefore further exacerbating his condition. Sam knew he was struggling with porn addiction, but he was also very lonely. His loneliness further exacerbated his addiction. 

     [ "exacerbate" ]

    1: It means to make things worse.

      * e.g.,  ... "There's hundreds of Zombies outside, and they're really going to exacerbate things." 

     [ "exacerbate" ]

    1: To make an existing situation much worse than before

      * e.g.,  ... Faux News only helps to exacerbate the electorates intelligence level. 

     [ "exacerbate" ]

    1: To make a problem worse than it already is.

      * e.g.,  ... Don't exacerbate things! 

     [ "Exacerbate" ]

    1: To masturbate furiously, and to the point of utter exhaustion

      * e.g.,  ... Last night, I went home, and exacerbated for literally 3 hours...I've never slept better 

     [ "Exacerbate" ]

    1: To make worse or to worsen; opposite of helping

      * e.g.,  ... Jimmy's attempts to gain recongnition inhigh school only exacerbated his already troublesome identity crisis. 

     [ "Exacerbate" ]

    1: The term used to describe the practice of masturbating to exhaustion as a quality form of exercise.

      * e.g.,  ... I totally killed my workout yesterday - I had to exacerbate to failure for 5 sets! 

     [ "Exacerbate" ]

    1: Means the same thing as exasperate, but sounds more like masturbate and is therefore funnier, and funner to say. Its like im getting away with something dirty, like everytime I go to the restaurant Fudrucker's.

      * e.g.,  ... fudrucker's exacerbates puerile wit. 

     [ "Exacerbate" ]

    1: To excessively masturbate.

      * e.g.,  ... Eric: "Get out of my room, I'm masturbating." 

     [ "exacerbate" ]

    1: A word used by self-important twits who could have just said "aggravate".

      * e.g.,  ... Self-importance tends to exacerbate the use of a grandiose vocabulary. 

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