exasperate
pronunciation
How to pronounce exasperate in British English:
UK [ɪɡˈzæspəreɪt]
How to pronounce exasperate in American English:
US [ɪɡˈzæspəreɪt]
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- Verb:
- exasperate or irritate
- make furious
- make worse
Word Origin
- exasperate (v.)
- 1530s, "irritate, provoke to anger," from Latin exasperatus, past participle of exasperare "make rough, roughen, irritate, provoke," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + asper "rough" (see asperity). Related: Exasperated; exasperating.
Example
- 1. Chinese medicine resource is destroyed serious , zoology environment is increasingly exasperate , wild resource loss and wild five not well solved .
- 2. A diplomatic flurry may exasperate foreign friends , and lead to little .
- 3. After something like that , it seemed unrealistic for him to , for example , let sheldon ( jim parsons ) exasperate him the way he did before .
- 4. The property right with exasperate environment is insecure element and its control .
- 5. She had written back asking vita to explain a comment she had made that " one moment you enchant with your lovely prose and the next moment exasperate one with your misleading arguments " .