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exasperate
/ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/
adj 2verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
idle, immaterial, mean
VERB + EXASPERATE
didn't, report, seemed, swallows
EXASPERATE + NOUN
king, obstinacy, thou, year
PREP.
with
ADV.
only, then
Definitions
verb
1
To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
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.
adj
1
Exasperated.
And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
2
Exasperated; embittered.
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 […]
Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]
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And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
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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 ov
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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.
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And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
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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 […]
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Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]
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