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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.
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
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Exasperated.obsolete
- And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre.
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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 […]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]
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To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection.UKhumorousobsolete
- 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 f