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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exacerbate .
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Examples
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I think this ambition was fired - or perhaps exacerbated is a better word - by early marginal contacts with the Great, when we were evacuated to the English Lakes during the war.
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Currently, India is suffering through one of the worst ever outbreaks of Dengue Fever, which spreads through mosquitoes, exacerbated from a particularly harsh monsoon season.
Dave Zirin: When Sports Attacks; The 2010 Commonwealth Games Dave Zirin 2010
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Currently, India is suffering through one of the worst ever outbreaks of Dengue Fever, which spreads through mosquitoes, exacerbated from a particularly harsh monsoon season.
Dave Zirin: When Sports Attacks; The 2010 Commonwealth Games Dave Zirin 2010
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Currently, India is suffering through one of the worst ever outbreaks of Dengue Fever, which spreads through mosquitoes, exacerbated from a particularly harsh monsoon season.
Dave Zirin: When Sports Attacks; The 2010 Commonwealth Games Dave Zirin 2010
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Analysts said margin calls exacerbated the decline.
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Although this is meant to be the future, Hawke's character is named Edward Dalton, a peculiarly Victorian sounding name exacerbated by the black top hat he always wears.
PopMatters 2010
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Though Obama lays the bulk of what he calls "a legacy of mismanagement and misplaced priorities" - at the feet of the Bush administration, there is no mistaking his larger message -- that the problems which were "exacerbated" by Bush's tax cuts and other pro-rich policies have been building since Reagan's 1981 inaugural declaration that "government is the problem."
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Though Obama lays the bulk of what he calls "a legacy of mismanagement and misplaced priorities" - at the feet of the Bush administration, there is no mistaking his larger message -- that the problems which were "exacerbated" by Bush's tax cuts and other pro-rich policies have been building since Reagan's 1981 inaugural declaration that "government is the problem."
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A Minneapolis attorney said the city has "exacerbated" problems at the station over the years by being too involved
The Austin Daily Herald Mike Rose 2010
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Hungarian policymakers "exacerbated" the country's fiscal situation, he said.
TODAYonline 2010
agustinolvera commented on the word exacerbated
"Speaking of college applications, Edward, Charlie said, his tone even more sullen-he tried to avoid addressing Edward directly, and when he had to, it exacerbated his bad mood." Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page19
October 4, 2010