Definizione monolingua

exasperate

exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)

1. To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
   • circa 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, sc. 6:

     this report

     Hath so exasperate the king that he

     Prepares for some attempt of war.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 3:

     The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 11:

     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.

   • 1987, ""Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino,"" Time, 5 Jan:

     [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.

   • 2007, ""Loyal Mail,"" Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):

     News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.

Definizione dizionario exasperate

	esasperare
	To make furious.
	To irritate or provoke to a high degree.

	peggiorare
	To make worse.

aggravare

esacerbare

far penare

inasprire

incitare

irritare

spronare

tormentare

Altri significati:

frustrate, vex, annoy

To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.