to exasperate
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5.9
- verb
- /ɪɡˈzæspəˌreɪt/
:
exasperar
- Elaine sort of envied her innocence while also being exasperated by it.
Examples
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The fiery young William Roper, who yearns to battle evil, is exasperated by Sir Thomas More's devotion to the law.
Academic text (1997) -
To know him is to be exasperated by him.
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"Can I cut the deck?" I liked to do that, which exasperated my mother.
Fiction book (1997) -
"Will you please describe the man for me?" Exasperated, I repeated what I'd told him two days earlier.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ephesians 6:4 says, "Fathers, do not exasperate your children. Instead, bring them up in the training and the instruction of the Lord."
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Within these classrooms, teachers were often exasperated by a lack of attention and misbehavior among the students.
Academic text (2014) -
"Nonsense!" Aria tried to hand the knife back, exasperated by the impertinent girl's theatrics.
Fiction book (2002) -
The constant interruptions during the meeting exasperated everyone present.
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Her habit of arriving late to class exasperates the teacher every day.
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The child's refusal to follow simple instructions often exasperates his parents.
Synonyms
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1.0
To annoy or disturb someone
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1.0
Make someone slightly angry or bothered by small repeated actions
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3.2
Make someone very annoyed or upset
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3.7
To annoy someone by bothering them repeatedly
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2.9
Make someone feel annoyed or impatient, often by repeated small actions
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6.9
Make someone annoyed, often by small things
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4.2
Annoy someone and make them angrier
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3.2
To annoy someone by asking for things again and again
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4.7
To make someone feel annoyed or unhappy
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7.2
To annoy someone again and again so they feel bothered
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7.0
To annoy someone by small, repeated actions
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6.7
Annoy someone more and more over time
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4.9
To bother someone again and again until they feel angry
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6.8
To make someone feel annoyed
Antonyms
How Annoyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
exasperate = ex + asper + ate
Although built from Latin elements (ex- + asper + -ate), the constituent 'asper' is not a recognizable modern English base and the meaning 'make very annoyed' is not transparently derived for average learners.
Etymology
Exasperate comes from the Latin parts ex- ('completely') and asper ('rough'), the same root as the English word asperity ('roughness'). So to exasperate someone is to make their feelings 'rough' or very annoyed, often by doing the same thing again and again.