Exasperate

Verb

 * 1) To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
 * 2) * c. 1611 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, sc. 6:
 * this report
 * Hath so exasperate the king that he
 * Prepares for some attempt of war.
 * 1) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 3:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 11:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1987, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time, 5 Jan:
 * [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
 * 1) * 2007, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
 * News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.

Synonyms for Exasperate
irritate, exacerbate, infuriate, anger, vex, incense, rouse,inflame, frustrate, aggravate, enrage, provoke, chafe, nettle, annoy.

Antonyms for Exasperate
mollify, placate, conciliate, assuage, calm.

Thesaurus
TB, aggravate, agitate, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, consumption, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, embitter, exercise, fash, fret, gall, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, huff, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, rankle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, set up, stir the blood, stir up, tease, torment, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, work up, worry

Translations

 * Catalan: exasperar
 * Dutch: tot wanhoop drijven
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: dühít, feldühít, felbőszít


 * Polish: wkurzać
 * Russian: сердить, раздражать, возмущать, изводить, бесить, приводить в ярость
 * Scottish Gaelic: sàraich
 * Spanish: