Exasperate Definition

Exasperate Sentence Examples

• Alcohol has a tendency to exasperate already tense situations, so abstaining is usually a good way to go.

• This step was well calculated to delight the followers of Ali, but it could not fail to exasperate the Abbasids and their partisans.

• He became, and could not but become, a persecutor in and out of Spain; and his persecutions not only hardened the obstinacy of the Dutch, and helped to exasperate the English, but they provoked a revolt of the Moriscoes, which impoverished his kingdom.

• The sense of injury, no doubt, contributed to exasperate Sarpi's feelings towards the court of Rome.

• At other points of the coast the British navy was employed in punitive expeditions against the coast towns - as for example the burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) in October 1775 - which served to exasperate, rather than to weaken the enemy, or the unsuccessful attack on Charleston, S.C., in June 1776.