| 单词 | exasperate |
| 例句 | exasperate verb •her bratty children exasperate their teachers:infuriate, incense, anger, annoy, irritate, madden, enrage, antagonize, provoke, irk, vex, get on someone's nerves, ruffle someone's feathers, rub the wrong way | informal aggravate, rile, bug, needle, get someone's back up, get someone's goat, tee off, tick off. ANT please.EASILY CONFUSED WORDS exasperate, exacerbate The verbs exasperate and exacerbate are sometimes confused. Exasperate, the more common of the two, means 'to irritate or annoy to an extreme degree' (•He emails me stupid jokes all day long. It's exasperating! ). Exacerbate means 'to increase the bitterness or severity' of something (•why does she insist on saying 'helpful' things that only exacerbate matters? ).These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs. |
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