exacerbated

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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. Cat Stevens

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian. Lev Grossman

I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there. Rita Mae Brown

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. Eric Alterman

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true. Howard Schultz

Communism, Fascism and National Socialism exacerbated and exploited popular resentments-class, racial and ethnic-to win mass support and to reinforce the claim that they, not the democratically elected governments, expressed the true will of the people. All three appealed to the emotion of hate. Richard Pipes