What is another word for exacerbate?
345 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɛ_ɡ_z_ˈa_s_ə_b_ˌeɪ_t], [ ɛɡzˈasəbˌe͡ɪt], [ ɛɡzˈasəbˌeɪt]Synonyms for Exacerbate:
adj.
•sour (adjective)n.
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- provoke.
v.
•aggravate (verb)- aggravate,
- annoy,
- antagonize,
- arouse,
- badger,
- bait,
- bedevil,
- bother,
- chafe,
- complicate,
- deepen,
- discompose,
- disturb,
- enhance,
- enrage,
- envenom,
- exaggerate,
- exasperate,
- fret,
- grate,
- harass,
- harry,
- hassle,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- irk,
- irritate,
- magnify,
- nag,
- needle,
- peeve,
- perturb,
- pester,
- rankle,
- tease,
- torment,
- trouble,
- upset,
- vex.
- acerbate,
- antagonize,
- arouse,
- bait,
- blow up,
- chafe,
- displease,
- fret,
- gall,
- incense,
- infuriate,
- nettle,
- outrage,
- pique,
- rankle,
- rile,
- stir up.
- badger,
- bedevil,
- disturb,
- harry,
- hurt,
- irk,
- nag,
- needle,
- perturb,
- pester,
- tease,
- torment,
- trouble,
- upset,
- grate on.
- aggravate,
- annoy,
- egg on,
- embitter,
- enrage,
- envenom,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- increase,
- inflame,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- madden,
- provoke,
- vex,
- worsen,
- hit on,
- add insult to injury,
- fan the flames,
- feed the fire,
- go from bad to worse,
- push one's button,
- rattle one's cage,
- rub salt in a wound.
- aggrandize,
- beef up,
- boost,
- build up,
- concentrate,
- escalate,
- exalt,
- quicken,
- raise,
- redouble,
- reinforce,
- sharpen,
- strengthen,
- whet.
Other synonyms:
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- complicate,
- degrade,
- fuel,
- pervert,
- vitiate.
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- escalate.
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- compound.
- sour.
- abasement,
- abominable,
- accelerate,
- acerbate,
- add,
- add to,
- agent provocateur,
- aggrandize,
- aggravate,
- aggravating,
- aggravatingly,
- aggravation,
- alienate,
- amplify,
- anger,
- annoying,
- annoyingly,
- atrocious,
- augment,
- awful,
- beef up,
- bitter,
- blow up,
- boost,
- bothersome,
- build up,
- cheapen,
- complicate,
- compound,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- convulse,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- cranky,
- damage,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decay,
- declension,
- decline,
- deepen,
- degeneracy,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- degrade,
- degraded,
- degrading,
- delay,
- depravity,
- derogatory,
- descend,
- deteriorate,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- dilapidate,
- disappointment,
- discouragement,
- disperse,
- displease,
- double,
- dramatize,
- dreadful,
- egg on,
- embitter,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- escalate,
- estrange,
- exacerbation,
- exaggerate,
- exalt,
- exasperatingly,
- exasperation,
- excite,
- expand,
- failure,
- fan,
- feed,
- foment,
- fractious,
- fuel,
- gall,
- galling,
- gratingly,
- gravel,
- grit,
- harm,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- hurt,
- impair,
- incense,
- incite,
- increase,
- inflate,
- infuriating,
- injure,
- intensify,
- ire,
- irritable,
- irritating,
- irritative,
- jazz up,
- kindle,
- lash,
- madden,
- magnify,
- multiply,
- nettle,
- nourish,
- outrage,
- overstate,
- painful,
- pervert,
- pestilential,
- pique,
- provoke,
- provokingly,
- put back,
- quicken,
- raise,
- ramify,
- rasp,
- redouble,
- reinforce,
- rile,
- setback,
- shameful,
- sharpen,
- soup up,
- sour,
- spoil,
- spread,
- stimulate,
- stir up,
- strengthen,
- sustain,
- triple,
- troublesome,
- urge,
- vexatious,
- vitiate,
- weaken,
- whet,
- worsen,
- worsened,
- worsening,
- Depravation,
- Endamage,
- Irksome,
- Superadd,
- Suscitate,
- irritatingly,
- infuriatingly,
- set on edge,
- frustratingly,
- hit on,
- set against,
- Vexatiously,
- grow worse,
- make worse,
- make complex,
- fan the flame,
- add insult to injury,
- set at odds,
- fan the flames,
- feed the fire,
- go from bad to worse,
- grate on,
- key up,
- make acute,
- push one's button,
- rattle one's cage,
- rub salt in a wound,
- maddeningly.
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Antonyms for Exacerbate:
Other antonyms:
v.
-
anger
forbear, make happy, quiet.
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bother
please.
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embitter
pacify.
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inflame
appease, cool, put out, quench, tranquilize.
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anger
