Exasperation
[ɪg,zɑːspə'reɪʃ(ə)n;eg-]
Definition
(noun.) actions that cause great irritation (or even anger).
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Definition
(n.) The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
(n.) Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Irritation, provocation, exacerbation.[2]. Wrath, rage, ire, fury, violent passion.
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- She had already forgotten her exasperation against him, and she bowed and smiled good-humouredly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The snakes invaded her domestic apartments, and history is not clear whether Philip found in them matter for exasperation or religious awe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation: Bust me, if she ain't at it agin! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, Good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He knitted his brows in sudden exasperation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He did not feel a gentleman, he did not feel anything except pure exasperation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the climax of his exasperation he hurled an oath at the dog and a coarse epithet at his mistress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Frederick carried culture to the pitch of authorship, and corresponded with and entertained Voltaire, to their mutual exasperation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It drove her father to a pitch of mad exasperation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It betrays the fatal exasperation of a man who has lost his faith in the power of truth because _his_ truth has not prevailed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It has kept him in a state of smothered exasperation all the time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In his inflamed, overwrought exasperation, he stopped the car, and they sat there, in the middle of the country lane, to have it out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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