exacerbate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exacerbate, each labelled with its topic.

• Skipping the stretching routine exacerbated the runner's knee pain until she could not manage a single flight of stairs.

  Medicine

• Draining the marsh exacerbated the flooding downstream, and the next storm reached houses that had stayed dry for decades.

  Environment

• Raising rates too quickly can exacerbate a downturn, turning a slow quarter into two years of rising unemployment.

  Economics

• The minister's late apology only exacerbated the row, since it arrived after every newspaper had already printed its editorial.

  Politics

• Borrowing to cover the losses exacerbated the firm's cash crisis, adding interest payments to bills it already could not meet.

  Finance

• Lying awake checking the clock exacerbates insomnia, because the worry about not sleeping becomes the thing keeping you up.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains exacerbate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

• rife
• detract
• imperious
• acumen
• insular
• chagrin
• censure
• scrupulous
• savant
• hapless
• decorum
• vanquish