0 past simple and past participle of exacerbate
1 to make something that is already bad even worse:
This attack will exacerbate the already tense relations between the two communities.
Problems in recruitment and retention are exacerbated by reports of low morale throughout the profession.
These gains in private technical efficiency raise social costs as the technological resource stock externality is exacerbated.
In the context of failed economic reform, she claims, glasnost exacerbated people's fears of deviance and social collapse.
In some soils, irrigation helped alleviate some of the effects of compaction but in others it exacerbated their severity.
The problem of streamlining these interests is dramatically exacerbated in the context of massive corporate consolidation.
This foreign component exacerbated the ideological contradictions faced domestically.
For this set of convents, their problems were also exacerbated by the peculiarities of their status on the continent, and the precariousness of their survival.
The resulting balance of payments crisis was exacerbated by the government's delay in adjusting petroleum prices and electricity rates.
