exacerbation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=ac=er=ba=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

exacerbation, n. [Cf. F. exacerbation.].

•  The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.  [1913 Webster]
•  A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

exacerbation

accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, arousal, arousing, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, chafe, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, electrification, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exaggeration, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, explosion, fomentation, fret, gall, galvanization, heating-up, heightening, incitement, increase, inflammation, information explosion, infuriation, intensification, irritant, irritation, lathering up, magnification, perturbation, pickup, population explosion, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, souring, speedup, steaming up, step-up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, strengthening, tightening, whipping up, working up, worsening

ROGET THESAURUS

exacerbation

Violence

N violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity, boisterousness, effervescence, ebullition, turbulence, bluster, uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire, severity, ferocity, rage, fury, exacerbation, exasperation, malignity, fit, paroxysm, orgasm, climax, aphrodisia, force, brute force, outrage, coup de main, strain, shock, shog, spasm, convulsion, throe, hysterics, passion, outbreak, outburst, debacle, burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent, turmoil, ferment, storm, tempest, rough weather, squall, earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm, berserk, berserker, fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast, fire eater, violent, vehement, warm, acute, sharp, rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild, brusque, abrupt, waspish, impetuous, rampant, turbulent, disorderly, blustering, raging, troublous, riotous, tumultuary, tumultuous, obstreperous, uproarious, extravagant, unmitigated, ravening, inextinguishable, tameless, frenzied, desperate, infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics, fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient, savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger, excited, unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly, headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable, uncontrollable, incontrollable, insuppressible, irrepressible, orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic, spasmodic, convulsive, explosive, detonating, volcanic, meteoric, stormy, violently, amain, by storm, by force, by main force, with might and main, tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, at one fell swoop, with a high hand, through thick and thin, in desperation, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, headlong, head foremost, furor arma ministrat, blown with restless violence round about the pende.

Aggravation

N aggravation, worsening, heightening, exacerbation, exasperation, overestimation, exaggeration, aggravated, worse, unrelieved, aggravable, aggravating, out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse, Int, so much the worse!.