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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exacerbate /ɪgˈzasəbeɪt, ɛkˈsas-/

▶verb make (something bad) worse.

– derivatives
exacerbation noun.

– origin C17 (earlier (ME) as exacerbation, in the sense ‘provocation to anger’): from L. exacerbat-, exacerbare ‘make harsh’.

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