exasperate
verbEtymology
First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
- derived from exasperō
- borrowed from exasperātus
Definitions
To tax the patience of
To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
- And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
Exasperated.
- And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
Exasperated
Exasperated; embittered.
- Thersites. Do I curse thee? Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no. Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]
The neighborhood
- neighborasperate
- neighborasperity
- neighborexacerbate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at exasperate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at exasperate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at exasperate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA