(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.
Provoke
Definition:
(v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.
(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(3) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(4) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(5) Following treatment with reserpine or alternatively with a combination of phenothiazines (Randolektil, Majeptil) a drug-induced parkinsonoid reaction was provoked in rats.
(6) Studies were conducted in isolated, buffer-perfused rat lungs to determine if prostaglandin (PG) E1 attenuated pulmonary edema provoked by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
(7) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(8) Carotid nerves block provoked transient ventilatory depression, decreasing VT by 46% and fR by 26%, followed by recovery to steady-state values in VT, fR and PETCO2.
(9) The 2nd experiment investigated memory for details of a provoking experience.
(10) In normal as well as in cirrhotic subjects somatostatin infusion provoked a marked reduction of the IRI plasma level and this was uninfluenced by subsequent glucagon administration.
(11) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(12) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
(13) Monosodium glutamate (MSG) taken per os has been found to stimulate gastric secretion provoked by pentagastrin.
(14) The higher degree of tachycardia in conscious dogs provoked by clenbuterol is a result of a reflex reaction to the vasodilation analogous to that of salbutamol.
(15) In some of the 10 patients who tolerated cow's milk challenge clinically there was an increase in both IgA- and IgM-containing cells suggestive of a local immunological reaction although no clinical intolerance was provoked and other immunological signs were weak or absent.
(16) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
(17) After reviewing the immunological anomalies provoked by the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) as well as their implications in pulmonary pathology, the authors enumerate the diagnostic and therapeutic methods currently available in the treatment of patients suffering from AIDS and pulmonary diseases.
(18) Coronary spasm was provoked by ergonovine maleate in four of 12 patients in group A (33%) and in three patients in group B (18%).
(19) Similar areas provoked by exercise or atrial pacing represent the site of acute ischaemia.
(20) Insulin-induced hypoglycemia provokes polyribosome disaggregation and accumulation of monomeric ribosomes in the brain of rats with hypoglycemic paresis and coma.