Hot and blustery conditions will exacerbate the risk of fire tomorrow.
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Exacerbate
//ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt//
Synonyms for "exacerbate" (83 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 22 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սաստկացնել verb (make worse)
Bulgarian
1 entries- влошавам verb (make worse)
Catalan
2 entries- agreujar verb (make worse)
- exacerbar verb (make worse)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 使惡化 /使恶化 verb (make worse)
- 加劇 /加剧 verb (make worse)
- 加重 verb (make worse)
Czech
2 entries- zhoršit verb (make worse)
- ztížit verb (make worse)
Danish
2 entries- forværre verb (make worse)
- skærpe verb (make worse)
Dutch
3 entries- exacerberen verb (make worse)
- verergeren verb (make worse)
- verslechteren verb (make worse)
Finnish
1 entries- pahentaa verb (make worse)
French
3 entries- aggraver verb (make worse)
- empirer verb (make worse)
- exacerber verb (make worse)
German
4 entries- schlimmer machen verb (make worse)
- verschlechtern verb (make worse)
- verschlimmern verb (make worse)
- verschärfen verb (make worse)
Irish
1 entries- géaraigh verb (make worse)
Italian
1 entries- esacerbare verb (make worse)
Japanese
1 entries- 悪化させる verb (make worse)
Latin
1 entries- exacerbō verb (make worse)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- forverre verb (make worse)
- skjerpe verb (make worse)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forverre verb (make worse)
Portuguese
1 entries- exacerbar verb (make worse)
Russian
4 entries- усугуби́ть verb (make worse)
- усугубля́ть verb (make worse)
- уху́дшить verb (make worse)
- ухудша́ть verb (make worse)
Spanish
3 entries- agravar verb (make worse)
- empeorar verb (make worse)
- exacerbar verb (make worse)
Swedish
2 entries- förvärra verb (make worse)
- skärpa verb (make worse)
Turkish
1 entries- kötüleştirmek verb (make worse)
Ukrainian
3 entries- загострювати verb (make worse)
- поглиблювати verb (make worse)
- погіршувати verb (make worse)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Hard surfaces, such as concrete, cover large portions of land, impede the natural absorption of water, and thus exacerbate surficial erosion on adjacent unprotected land.
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Climate change threatens to exacerbate existing social and economic inequalities.
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Trump went out of his way to exacerbate the pandemic at every opportunity.
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