Usually means: Make a situation worse intensively.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word exacerbate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exacerbate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exacerbate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exacerbate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exacerbate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exacerbate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exacerbate, exacerbate: Wordnik
  7. exacerbate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exacerbate: Wiktionary
  9. exacerbate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exacerbate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exacerbate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exacerbate: Dictionary.com
  13. exacerbate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Exacerbate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Exacerbate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exacerbate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exacerbate: Rhymezone
  18. Exacerbate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exacerbate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exacerbate: Free Dictionary
  21. exacerbate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exacerbate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. exacerbate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. exacerbate: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Exacerbate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. exacerbate: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  5. exacerbate: Medical dictionary
  6. Exacerbate: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbate: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate.

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