Synonyms for exacerbate
ɪgˈzæs ərˌbeɪt, ɛkˈsæs-ex·ac·er·bate

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1. worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperateverb

   make worse

   "This drug aggravates the pain"

   Synonyms:
   infuriate, incense, worsen, decline, exasperate, aggravate

2. exacerbate, exasperate, aggravateverb

   exasperate or irritate

   Synonyms:
   infuriate, incense, worsen, exasperate, aggravate

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1. exacerbateverb

   Synonyms:
   irritate, exasperate, provoke, imbitter, inflame, excite, infuriate

2. exacerbateverb

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, heighten, increase

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1. List of paraphrases for "exacerbate":

   aggravate, worsen, inflame, exacerbates, escalate, exacerbated, deepen, heighten, accentuate, compound, aggravates

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1. Sergei Lavrov:

   There are growing appeals in the West to support the Kiev policy of militarization, to pump Ukraine full with lethal weapons and to bring it into NATO, this position will only exacerbate the tragedy of Ukraine.

2. Peter Mumford:

   The increasingly dirty battle to succeed Mahathir will exacerbate tensions within the ruling coalition, making it harder for the government to reduce the fiscal deficit and boost economic growth, the jockeying for power encourages politically-motivated spending rather than cost cutting.

3. Mikhail Gorbachev:

   ...It turned out this treaty was the most important pillar of strategic stability. We need talks so that its destruction does not exacerbate the threat of war.

4. Nicole Willcoxon:

   The [ available ] climate research shows that there's a clear risk for mass migration, social divides and inequality increasing, potential food crises and things like that, while this study didn't directly measure those things, we think it's a clear implication out of the [ available ] research showing that if well-being continues to drop at the levels that we project, it could exacerbate these issues even more deeply, or that it's a piece of the puzzle that we're missing at this point of what is the human toll.

5. Craig Singleton:

   No doubt, China’s current debt crisis has the potential to exacerbate existing socio-economic tensions.