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exasperate

/ig-zas-puh-reyt/US // ɪgˈzæs pəˌreɪt //UK // (ɪɡˈzɑːspəˌreɪt) //

激怒了,激怒,使劲,使劲地

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·as·per·at·ed, ex·as·per·at·ing.

    • : to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely: He was exasperated by the senseless delays.
    • : Archaic. to increase the intensity or violence of.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Botany. rough; covered with hard, projecting points, as a leaf.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbupset, provoke
Forms: exasperated, exasperating

Examples

  • We observe the way Alex exasperates employers, daycare workers and grocery clerks by simply existing in her current, impossible state.

  • “A Buckhead secession only exasperates a problem that has been there for decades.”

  • Washington was similarly exasperated during World War I when Britain used its control over international communications to limit news about the war as well as day-to-day economic information.

  • As long as Congresses and Presidents exasperate each other, Schlesinger will have an audience, and an afterlife.

  • Just to exasperate Dayton further I put in a plea for gifts as against character in educational, artistic, and legislative work.

  • For—perhaps this was partly the effect of the unrelenting heat—her insipid coquetries had begun to exasperate me more and more.

  • What divisions separate the human race, and exasperate men against each other!

  • She added several other Sayings which instead of pacifying this silly Queen, did but exasperate her the more.

  • It seems to me that the best way is to describe, with the simplest precision, those things that exasperate one.