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"Exacerbate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sergeant Moore approaching on foot, with Sourdough (as ever) at his heels. He did not know that the sergeant had been watching him through binoculars from the barracks, and that he had spent a quarter of an hour in carefully devised efforts to exacerbate the never very amiable temper ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson
... same time George Downing, a skilful intriguer and adventurer, who after serving Cromwell had succeeded in gaining the confidence of the royal government, had been sent as ambassador to the Hague, where he worked underhand to exacerbate the disputes and to prevent a settlement of the differences between the two peoples. The position and treatment of the Prince of Orange had likewise been a source of difficulty and even of danger to the supremacy of the States party. There arose a general movement among the provinces, ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson |
Words linked to "Exacerbate" : irritate, anger, inflame, exacerbation, change, modify, alter, exasperate, degrade, cheapen, better, aggravate |
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