Timeline for Single word to describe "make something worse"
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| May 12, 2014 at 7:50 | comment | added | som-snytt | @568ml I meant etymologically. In usage, I did mean exacerbate means worsen but not Armageddon. Not an expert, but here's a usage distinguishing "acute exacerbation" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…. If an action exacerbated a situation because now everyone is dead, that would be understatement. BTW, re-reading the OP, I now think OP wants exacerbate and not "it crashed and burned and died." I was extrapolating from my experiences with hammers. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 7:18 | comment | added | 568ml | @som-snytt do you have any references or examples for this more specific definition? I've never come across it before, and at least in the case of my own personal 'feel' for the word exarcebate, I don't sense any such connotation. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 0:37 | comment | added | som-snytt | Exacerbate means more bitter, like acerbic, as in rubbing salt in a wound. The question sounds like it's looking for an exponential effect, perhaps. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 7:58 | vote | accept | John | ||
| May 7, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | User1000547 | "Look, I don't care what the telly says, all right? We have to get out of here. If we don't they'll tear us to pieces, and that is really going to exacerbate things for all of us." | |
| May 7, 2014 at 17:56 | comment | added | AbraCadaver | +1 first word that popped into my mind before reading answers. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 15:11 | history | answered | 568ml | CC BY-SA 3.0 |