exasperate
激怒了,激怒,使劲,使劲地
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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.
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- : Botany. rough; covered with hard, projecting points, as a leaf.
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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.