0 present 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.
The involvement of family doctors in administrative tasks takes them away from clinical services exacerbating problems.
Part of the reason for this is that such organisations are quite prone to reproducing and exacerbating local inequalities and conflicts within their structures.
Some groups append rural matters to their existing specialisms, exacerbating compartmentalisation.
Exacerbating this position, many of the drama's protagonists understand themselves as profoundly isolated by their exceptional situations (whether ennobled or degraded) and attendant emotions.
There appears to be a mutual intolerance of each other's professional groups, further exacerbating an already unsatisfactory situation in our study group.
Consistently, industrial profit-markup inflation increases, in general, during recessions, exacerbating output contraction despite the reduction in workers' real standard of living.
Frequently there were contributory disorders, exacerbating underlying long-term diseases, not normally fatal.
Moreover, its flight and approach tendencies, both vital to survival, are mutually exacerbating.
