exasperate
English
Etymology
From Latin exasperō; ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -æspəɹeɪt
- Hyphenation: ex‧as‧per‧ate
Verb
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- To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
- c. 1611 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
- And this report
- Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 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, chapter 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 January 5, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
- 2007 June 4, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
- c. 1611 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
Translations
frustrate, vex, annoy
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Adjective
exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)
- (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
- c. 1601 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- 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 […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, Book 4, p. 177,[2]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
- Sets spinning […]
- c. 1601 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
Related terms
See also
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Ido
Pronunciation
Verb
exasperate
- adverbial present passive participle of exasperar
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ek.sas.peˈraː.te/, [ɛks̠äs̠pɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.peˈra.te/, [eɡzäspeˈräːt̪e]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) exasperāte
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