Usually means: Makes a situation significantly worse.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word exacerbates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. exacerbates: Merriam-Webster
  2. exacerbates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. exacerbates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Exacerbates, exacerbates: Wordnik
  5. exacerbates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. exacerbates: Wiktionary
  7. exacerbates: Dictionary.com
  8. exacerbates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. exacerbates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacerbates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See exacerbate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (exacerbate)

verb:  (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).
▸ Also see exacerbate


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