What's the difference between exacerbate and exasperate?

Exacerbate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.
  • (3) We report a case of chronic recurrent polymyositis associated with increasing antibody titers of coxsackievirus A9 in serum during clinical exacerbations.
  • (4) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
  • (5) The development of renal insufficiency during enalapril therapy may be exacerbated by concomitant diuretic therapy and should raise the suspicion of underlying transplant renal-artery stenosis.
  • (6) A lysosomal membrane labilizer, vitamin A, exacerbated the cartilage pathology, whereas a stabilizer, cortisone, retarded it.
  • (7) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
  • (8) Endotoxins in plasma were monitored during treatment in 18 patients hospitalised for acute exacerbation of Crohn's disease: systemic endotoxaemia was found on admission in all but one.
  • (9) Exacerbation of inflammation due to repeated traumatization of the oesophagus wall was accompanied by proliferation of the epithelial layers.
  • (10) Pyoderma gangrenosum is a poorly understood disease characterized by exacerbations and remissions of morphologically unique skin ulcers.
  • (11) A complex scheme of prophylaxis of exacerbation and progression of chronic bronchopulmonary diseases in children was developed.
  • (12) The clinical aspects with remission and exacerbation are discussed.
  • (13) We designed the present study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefaclor in the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in cigarette smokers.
  • (14) It was demonstrated that neither enflurane nor halothane exacerbates a pre-existing susceptibility to seizure activity and that both these inhalation anaesthetics are suitable for cases suffering from cerebral convulsive disorders.
  • (15) We conclude that myoglobinuria, of a degree insufficient to cause renal failure itself, can interact with renal ischemia to significantly exacerbate the renal damage produced.
  • (16) These lymph node reactions could have likely been a part of the so called early exacerbation.
  • (17) Hyperglycemia exacerbates neurologic damage in clinical and experimental central nervous system ischemia.
  • (18) Anticoagulation may exacerbate possible tendencies for an ischemic infarction to become hemorrhagic.
  • (19) (4) Symptoms are exacerbated by a research ward that is disruptive to the community.
  • (20) This injury was exacerbated to grade 4 (p less than 0.05) following reperfusion but was almost completely healed 24 h later.

Exasperate


Definition:

  • (a.) Exasperated; imbittered.
  • (v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
  • (v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (2) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
  • (3) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (4) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (5) Mags, from South Thanet, expressed her exasperation: “They’re all out for themselves.
  • (6) Showing exasperation at slow progress in kick-starting the €440bn European Financial Stability Facility, Draghi said EU leaders had decided more than a year and a half ago to launch the fund, then to make the full guarantee volume available and, four weeks ago, to leverage its resources.
  • (7) "Some even call me her pet," he sighs, raising his eyebrows in exasperation.
  • (8) The UK defence secretary, John Hutton, has expressed exasperation at European allies' lack of support .
  • (9) They also share – and here is the thing – an exasperation with the Spanish way of work.
  • (10) Barack Obama , at a press conference to wind up the summit, made no attempt to conceal his exasperation, issuing a pointed warning to Pakistan it was in its wider interest to work with the US to avoid being "consumed" by extremists.
  • (11) Even after three decades in the sector he sounds genuinely exasperated that life expectancy for people with some serious mental illnesses can be as much as 20 years lower than the average.
  • (12) There’s no evidence she’s ever been physically harmed by me on any occasion.” The officer was clearly growing exasperated with Anderson.
  • (13) And, yes, they exasperate their numerous ideologically charged colleagues, who have a more sceptical approach to the evidence.
  • (14) Foreign Office colleagues remember Sir Andrew as genuinely exasperated that Mr Masari could be allowed to stay and damage relations with Saudi Arabia.
  • (15) You can’t say that,” he says with impatient exasperation, when I suggest the Coalition , with its commanding majority in the lower house and its pretty well-known opposition to carbon pricing, is highly unlikely to ever back an ETS put forward by PUP even if the price is set at zero until certain that Australia’s trading partners have acted.
  • (16) "Evan can get exasperated if the interviewee doesn't see the world in the very clear way that Evan sees it in his head.
  • (17) Photograph: Christopher Thomond As Wilson – a 46-year-old American from Salt Lake City who stays remarkably calm and cheerful despite his responsibilities – prepares to receive his early morning briefing from the night team, colleagues tell him in exasperation about a young woman who turned up at 3.25am complaining of pain coming from under the false nail on her left thumb.
  • (18) In those times when he, or any other politician, feels a sense of exasperation about limited progress in this area, I would ask him to be inspired by those educators and those Aboriginal people who have never walked away from such challenges.
  • (19) As about 200,000 pro-European protesters staged demonstrations in central Kiev for the fourth weekend in a row, the European commission in Brussels vented its exasperation with President Viktor Yanukovych and announced it was suspending the talks despite renewed negotiations last Thursday.
  • (20) Rumin alternates between fury and exasperation when the subject of the ban comes up.