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.
These tensions were exacerbated by management's desire to inculcate a regimented work ethic and to increase productivity.
By 1640 the situation was explosive, exacerbated by propagandists who salvaged images from previous decades.
For children with functional phonological delays, this effect may be particularly exacerbated given the extent of phonological mergers associated with an impoverished phonemic inventory.
The problem of delivery of high-density information via the network is exacerbated when the content has an interactive component, which implies a realtime rendering activity.
This feeling was exacerbated in the economic context of the late 1990s-high unemployment and the urgent need to generate exports.
Revenue shortfalls in the basic pension system also exacerbated central budget deficits as the state absorbed higher proportions of program financing.
Initially, at least, the growth of the smallholder population only exacerbated a situation of increasing demand for labourers and labour mobility.
The resulting balance of payments crisis was exacerbated by the government's delay in adjusting petroleum prices and electricity rates.
