exacerbating
Speech parts
1. exacerbating - Adjective
2. exacerbating - Verb
3. exacerbating - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
making worse
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According to the applicant, both water and the ingress of roots from the current trees and planters are exacerbating the deterioration of the walkway.
Additionally, until the 19th century peat was mined, dried, and used for fuel, further exacerbating the problem.
A nation cannot absorb those degree of continuing and exacerbating and angry differences indefinitely without something breaking.
And that assessment was in 2019 — before the devastation wrought by the coronavirus which is exacerbating inequality, in both health and the economy overall.
Around the world, authoritarian leaders are exploiting, exacerbating or grossly mishandling the response to the pandemic, placing selfish interest ahead of public good.
Another destabilizing factor was France's support for the Maronite Christians against the Druze which in turn led the British to back the Druze, exacerbating religious and economic tensions between the two communities.