Exasperate
[ɪg'zæsp(ə)reɪt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zæspəret]
Definition
(a.) Exasperated; imbittered.
(v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
(v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Irritate, provoke, chafe, vex, nettle, incense, anger, affront, offend, enrage, make angry.[2]. Exacerbate, inflame, render more violent.
Checked by Jo
Definition
v.t. to make very angry: to irritate in a high degree.—p.adj. irritated.—adjs. Exas′perating Exas′perative provoking.—ns. Exasperā′tion act of irritating; state of being exasperated: provocation: rage: aggravation; Exas′perator.
Editor: Megan
Examples
- I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You exasperate Mr. Candy, the doctor, on the sore subject of his profession; and he plays you a practical joke, in return, with a dose of laudanum. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We wondered if any thing could exasperate him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You annoy me with small meddling, with petty tyranny; you exasperate my temper, and make and keep me passionate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was a subtle insult that never failed to exasperate her father. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To Selden's exasperated observation she was only too completely alive to them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was so exasperated that I could have boxed her ears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Some times, when her uncle's easy way of taking things did not happen to be exasperating, it was rather soothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They creaked under his weight--it was exasperating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With Donne it was otherwise; he was troublesome, exasperating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And you are always so exasperating. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Before Mr. Ablewhite could find words to answer in, Rachel spoke in a tone of the most exasperating contempt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On Monday morning the weather was in that undecided state which is more exasperating than a steady pour. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Millie