🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Verschlimmerung

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Verschlimmerung

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
exacerbation/ɪɡˌzæsərˈbeɪʃən/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Kälte führte zu einer Verschlimmerung seiner Beschwerden."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of making a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.

    "The pollution led to an exacerbation of his asthma symptoms."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 17th century: from Latin exacerbat- 'provoked, irritated', from the verb exacerbare, from ex- (expressing thoroughness) + acerbus 'bitter'.

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