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Exacerbation   Listen
noun
Exacerbation  n.  
1.
The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
2.
(Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.





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"Exacerbation" Quotes from Famous Books



... exacerbation is not to be mistaken. It comes, we believe, from a consciousness of anaemia, a frenetic reaction towards what used, some years ago, to be ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry


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