| acerb | (adj) sour or bitter in taste, Syn. astringent, acerbic |
| acerb | (adj) harsh or corrosive in tone, Syn. vitriolic, sulfurous, acid, bitter, blistering, acerbic, virulent, caustic, acrid, sulphurous, Example: an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose; a barrage of acid comments; her acrid remarks make her many enemies; bitter words; blistering criticism; caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics; a sulfurous denunciation; a vitriolic critique |
| acerbate | (v) make sour or bitter |
| acerbity | (n) a sharp bitterness |
| acerbity | (n) a sharp sour taste, Syn. tartness |
| exacerbate | (v) exasperate or irritate, Syn. aggravate, exasperate |
| exacerbation | (n) violent and bitter exasperation, Example: his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel |
| aggravation | (n) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse, Syn. exacerbation, Example: the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care |
| bitterness | (n) a rough and bitter manner, Syn. thorniness, acerbity, tartness, jaundice, acrimony |
| embitter | (v) cause to be bitter or resentful, Syn. envenom, acerbate, Example: These injustices embittered her even more |
| worsen | (v) make worse, Syn. exasperate, exacerbate, aggravate, Ant. better, Example: This drug aggravates the pain |
| Acerb | a. [ L. acerbus, fr. acer sharp: cf. F. acerbe. See Acrid. ] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Acerbate | v. t. [ L. acerbatus, p. p. of acerbare, fr. acerbus. ] To sour; to imbitter; to irritate. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Acerbic | a. Sour or severe. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Acerbitude | n. [ L. acerbitudo, fr. acerbus. ] Sourness and harshness. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Acerbity | n. [ F. acerbité, L. acerbitas, fr. acerbus. See Acerb. ] 1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exacerbate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exacerbated p. pr. & vb. n. Exacerbating ] [ L. exacerbatus, p. p. of exacerbare; ex out (intens.) + acerbare. See Acerbate. ] To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| exacerbating | adj. Making worse.
Syn. -- aggravating, exasperating. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Exacerbation | pos>n. [ Cf. F. exacerbation. ] 1. 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 ] 2. (Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exacerbescence | n. [ L. exacerbescens, -entis, p. pr. of exacerbescere, incho. of exacerbare. ] Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 加剧 | [jiā jù, ㄐㄧㄚ ㄐㄩˋ, 加 剧 / 加 劇] to intensify; to sharpen; to accelerate; to aggravate; to exacerbate; to embitter #6,417 [Add to Longdo] |
| 涩 | [sè, ㄙㄜˋ, 涩 / 澀] grating (of surfaces); tart; acerbic, See also: 澀 #10,674 [Add to Longdo] |
| 涩味 | [sè wèi, ㄙㄜˋ ㄨㄟˋ, 涩 味 / 澀 味] acerbic (taste); astringent [Add to Longdo] |
| 转剧 | [zhuǎn jù, ㄓㄨㄢˇ ㄐㄩˋ, 转 剧 / 轉 劇] to make acute; to exacerbate [Add to Longdo] |
| 咸涩 | [xián sè, ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄙㄜˋ, 咸 涩 / 鹹 澀] salty and bitter; acerbic [Add to Longdo] |
