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  • The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways...For the mere fact that certain abuses have been remedied draws attention to the others and they now appear more galling; people may suffer less, but their sensibility is exacerbated.†  (source)
  • The true cause of Africa's poverty is the continent's long history of crippling misgovernance—a problem that is exacerbated by rich countries' trade protectionism, particularly with respect to agriculture.†  (source)
  • It exacerbates her arthritis.  (source)
    exacerbates = makes worse (said of a bad thing)
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  • Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the Galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated that the following facts will now be revealed in advance.  (source)
    exacerbated = made worse
  • The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures.†  (source)
  • Instead of exacerbating the issue, he invited Milton Security's CEO to lunch.†  (source)
    exacerbating = making worse
  • I'm frightened, but I'm not sure what I'm afraid of, which just exacerbates the fear.†  (source)
    exacerbates = makes worse
  • To Xavier's mind, Lippy's hat was the final exacerbation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I actually felt a little nauseated, sitting there, a condition exacerbated when I turned on the desk lamp, which had an orange shade and made everything seem even more radioactive.  (source)
    exacerbated = made worse
  • Add that to the unknown number of kids who face abuse or neglect but somehow avoid the foster care system, and you have an epidemic—one that current policies exacerbate.†  (source)
  • One wheel on his shopping cart wobbled noisily, louder in his imagination than in reality, exacerbating his headache.†  (source)
    exacerbating = making worse
  • Faculty club interlocutions over "publish or perish" or how affirmative action exacerbates the conflict between the magnetic lecturers and the dogged scholars are not on Cedric's radar.†  (source)
    exacerbates = makes worse
  • A doctor confirmed that he had disastrously exacerbated his war injury.†  (source)
    exacerbated = made worse
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