exasperate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/|/ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/    美 /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry. transitive
    — And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
  2. To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection. UK,humorous,obsolete,slang
    — quoted (from Punch magazine) in 2005, David Crystal, The Stories of English COCKNEY HOBSERVATION. — Cockneys are not the only people who drop or exasperate the 'h's.' It is done by common people in the provinces, and you may laugh at them for it.
形容词 adj.
  1. Exasperated. obsolete
    — And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
  2. Exasperated; embittered. obsolete
    — Thersites. Do I curse thee? Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no. Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]

词形变化

exasperates present,singular,third-person exasperating participle,present exasperated participle,past exasperated past more exasperate comparative most exasperate superlative exasperates present,singular,third-person exasperating participle,present exasperated participle,past exasperated past

词汇关系

相关词
asperate asperity exacerbate

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
词源 2
A pun on the usual sense of exasperate (to annoy) and aspirate.
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