Definition for Exacerbate:

• Aggravate( pain, disease, anger); irritate( person &c.). So exacerbation n. [ Latin]

Synonyms for Exacerbate:

• adj.

  •sour (adjective)
  • embitter.

• n.

  •
  • escalate,
  • increase,
  • compound,
  • heighten,
  • intensify.
  •
  • provoke.
  •exacerbate (noun)
  • worsen,
  • exasperate,
  • aggravate.

• v.

  •aggravate (verb)
  • fret,
  • hassle,
  • annoy,
  • irk,
  • needle,
  • bedevil,
  • arouse,
  • bait,
  • envenom,
  • discompose,
  • rankle,
  • tease,
  • irritate,
  • complicate,
  • torment,
  • infuriate,
  • perturb,
  • harass,
  • pester,
  • magnify,
  • trouble,
  • enrage,
  • bother,
  • exasperate,
  • nag,
  • chafe,
  • vex,
  • deepen,
  • peeve,
  • upset,
  • disturb,
  • inflame,
  • antagonize,
  • aggravate,
  • harry,
  • badger,
  • enhance,
  • exaggerate,
  • grate.
  •anger (verb)
  • pique,
  • nettle,
  • displease,
  • infuriate,
  • antagonize,
  • gall,
  • chafe,
  • rile,
  • outrage,
  • stir up,
  • bait,
  • blow up,
  • fret,
  • acerbate,
  • rankle,
  • incense,
  • arouse.
  •bother (verb)
  • trouble,
  • tease,
  • torment,
  • badger,
  • pester,
  • irk,
  • bedevil,
  • grate on,
  • disturb,
  • nag,
  • hurt,
  • harry,
  • perturb,
  • upset,
  • needle.
  •compound (verb)
  • make complex,
  • multiply,
  • add to,
  • augment.
  •embitter (verb)
  • sour,
  • bother,
  • anger,
  • bitter.
  •exacerbate (verb)
  • embitter,
  • rub salt in a wound,
  • annoy,
  • feed the fire,
  • worsen,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • aggravate,
  • envenom,
  • enrage,
  • hit on,
  • inflame,
  • heighten,
  • provoke,
  • exasperate,
  • egg on,
  • madden,
  • excite,
  • increase,
  • add insult to injury,
  • push one's button,
  • irritate,
  • vex,
  • fan the flames,
  • intensify,
  • go from bad to worse,
  • heat up.
  •exasperate (verb)
  • peeve.
  •inflame (verb)
  • foment,
  • kindle,
  • fan,
  • grate,
  • stimulate.
  •intensify (verb)
  • sharpen,
  • concentrate,
  • beef up,
  • quicken,
  • escalate,
  • exalt,
  • raise,
  • reinforce,
  • redouble,
  • aggrandize,
  • boost,
  • whet,
  • strengthen,
  • build up.
  •sour (verb)
  • spoil.
  •strengthen (verb)
  • intensify.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • degrade,
  • pervert,
  • complicate,
  • fuel,
  • vitiate.
  •
  • escalate.
  •
  • compound.
  •alienate
  • sour.
  •embitter
  • embitter.
  •Other relevant words:
  • soup up,
  • aggravation,
  • gravel,
  • abasement,
  • corrosion,
  • dreadful,
  • dramatize,
  • convulse,
  • derogatory,
  • cheapen,
  • aggravatingly,
  • fuel,
  • inflate,
  • exacerbation,
  • atrocious,
  • depravity,
  • set on edge,
  • go from bad to worse,
  • consolidate,
  • failure,
  • increase,
  • galling,
  • enhance,
  • estrange,
  • strengthen,
  • concentrate,
  • Vexatiously,
  • impair,
  • magnify,
  • lash,
  • degrade,
  • rasp,
  • triple,
  • add insult to injury,
  • sustain,
  • gall,
  • jazz up,
  • madden,
  • nourish,
  • intensify,
  • degeneracy,
  • spoil,
  • setback,
  • double,
  • decline,
  • harm,
  • spread,
  • amplify,
  • pestilential,
  • add,
  • exasperatingly,
  • augment,
  • bothersome,
  • expand,
  • irritatingly,
  • grate on,
  • put back,
  • whet,
  • urge,
  • decay,
  • incense,
  • add to,
  • stir up,
  • displease,
  • anger,
  • ire,
  • degeneration,
  • boost,
  • disperse,
  • dilapidate,
  • blow up,
  • exalt,
  • quicken,
  • delay,
  • sour,
  • redouble,
  • weaken,
  • awful,
  • foment,
  • maddeningly,
  • nettle,
  • fan the flame,
  • egg on,
  • irritating,
  • make worse,
  • overstate,
  • beef up,
  • accelerate,
  • Endamage,
  • descend,
  • exaggerate,
  • degraded,
  • rub salt in a wound,
  • kindle,
  • embitter,
  • escalate,
  • corruption,
  • set against,
  • grow worse,
  • enlarge,
  • pervert,
  • multiply,
  • Suscitate,
  • shameful,
  • deepen,
  • worsen,
  • troublesome,
  • aggravating,
  • fan,
  • compound,
  • deteriorate,
  • hit on,
  • fractious,
  • heat up,
  • irritable,
  • set at odds,
  • annoyingly,
  • vitiate,
  • infuriatingly,
  • make acute,
  • sharpen,
  • infuriating,
  • degradation,
  • gratingly,
  • hop up,
  • cranky,
  • stimulate,
  • disappointment,
  • ramify,
  • alienate,
  • reinforce,
  • feed,
  • debasement,
  • worsened,
  • raise,
  • degrading,
  • key up,
  • damage,
  • discouragement,
  • Depravation,
  • vexatious,
  • provokingly,
  • feed the fire,
  • hurt,
  • deterioration,
  • build up,
  • rile,
  • annoying,
  • injure,
  • hot up,
  • fan the flames,
  • complicate,
  • irritative,
  • exasperation,
  • declension,
  • frustratingly,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • bitter,
  • painful,
  • aggrandize,
  • abominable,
  • acerbate,
  • condense,
  • excite,
  • heighten,
  • incite,
  • outrage,
  • worsening,
  • make complex,
  • devolution,
  • provoke,
  • aggravate,
  • grit,
  • push one's button,
  • agent provocateur,
  • decadence,
  • Irksome,
  • pique,
  • Superadd.

Antonyms for Exacerbate:

• v.

  • aggravate
    relieve, improve, alleviate.
  • anger
    quiet, make happy, forbear.
  • bother
    please.
  • compound
    uncomplicate, make easy, better.
  • embitter
    pacify.
  • exacerbate
    calm, help, aid, comfort, soothe.
  • exasperate
    ease, placate.
  • inflame
    cool, quench, appease, put out, tranquilize.
  • infuriate; make worse
    compose, delight.
  • intensify
    weaken, slow, lower.
  • sour
    incite, excite, encourage.
  • Other antonyms:
    ease, help.