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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

esacerbare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: esacerbare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exacerbate/ɪɡˈzæs.ɚ.beɪt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Queste misure potrebbero esacerbare il conflitto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.

    "The heavy rain will only exacerbate the flooding in the region."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Latin exacerbat-, past participle of exacerbare, from ex- (intensive) + acerbus (harsh, bitter).

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