(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.
Rattle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
(v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.
(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
(n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(3) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(4) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(6) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(7) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
(8) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(9) Directional responses did not differ from the standard when rattle bursts were repeated at a rate of 20 per second for 1 s (experiment 1).
(10) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(11) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(12) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(13) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(14) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(15) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(16) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
(17) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
(18) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
(19) A telecom engineer who has not been able to find work, he rattled off statistics: unemployment in the province is 42% – the highest in Spain – rising to 69% for those under the age of 30.
(20) Paresh Davdra, co-founder of RationalFX, said the situation was rattling investors and raising parallels with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.