Converse of object

• express: Ministers and officials regularly express exasperation with the way in which the media is tackling foot and mouth.

• cause: This caused great exasperation among all communities in Lebanon.

• reflect: Their formation might be interpreted as reflecting the exasperation felt by government and employers with the pace of FE reform.

• grow: The young man and woman wondered, with growing exasperation, why?

• show: The video shows Mrs Schiavo trying to talk to her mother and showing exasperation that she could not do so.

Preposition: for

• visitor: One continuing exasperation for American visitors is that the people wilfully persist in speaking French, tho many will speak English if shouted at.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: The Pharaoh, in sheer exasperation, becomes doubly stubborn.

• comic: Comedy of Errors is a wonderful comic exasperation of mistaken identity.

• usual: So a frantic getting ready and the usual SB exasperation with going out hurries.

• deep: Even through Christopher's polarized interpretation, we can appreciate the love his parents have for him but also their deep exasperation and exhaustion.

• extreme: I found myself at last pacing the deck under the dawn in a mood of extreme exasperation.

• continuing: One continuing exasperation for American visitors is that the people wilfully persist in speaking French, tho many will speak English if shouted at.

Noun used with modifier

• SB: So a frantic getting ready and the usual SB exasperation with going out hurries.