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Exacerbation   /ɪgzˌæsərbˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Exacerbation

noun
1.
Action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse.  Synonym: aggravation.
2.
Violent and bitter exasperation.





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"Exacerbation" Quotes from Famous Books



... far from Rome; fifteen carbineers are quartered there. Before they came, those inevitable little troubles were settled by the local mayor; things remained in the family, so to speak. Now the place has been set by the ears, and a tone of exacerbation prevails. The natives spend their days in rushing to Rome and back on business connected with law-suits, not a quarter of which would have arisen but for the existence of the carbineers. Let me not be misunderstood. Individually, these ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... implacable critic, could not find fault with the technique of Lucas's driving. But exacerbation tells, even in the young, and at Piccadilly Circus, Lucas, in obeying a too suddenly uplifted hand of a policeman, stopped his engine. The situation, horribly humiliating for Lucas and also for George, provided pleasure for half the chauffeurs and drivers in Piccadilly ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett


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