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Exacerbate
verb
To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate.
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The word "exacerbate" is a correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the act of making something worse. For example: The introduction of taxes to the economy exacerbated poverty in the country.
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But current events will inevitably exacerbate the already established stereotype of the majority of young individuals as "thugs" and "gangsters", especially within the black community.
Rising temperatures leading to greater water scarcity, sea level rises and extreme weather events may exacerbate tensions over natural resources and cause large numbers of people to become "climate refugees" as they migrate across borders.
The likes of Forsyth will be looking to the prime minister to heal, and not exacerbate, wounds as he did when he played the English card after the Scottish independence referendum.
"There is no doubt that a decline in remittances will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis and erode the gains Somalia has made in recent years".
Under this rule, we would only release media once [potential irregular immigrants] were transferred ashore (at the earliest) … The fact that people will learn of certain details through Rescue Coordination Centre broadcasts … that does not mean that we greatly exacerbate the problem but (sic) announcing it ourselves.
High temperatures exacerbate these dry conditions by increasing evaporation, soil dryness, and water demand.
Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems.
A peace agreement could bring a flood of investment into extractive industries and exacerbate deforestation.
While some senators scored well on the report's -100 to +100 scale, most were middle-of-the-pack, and several scored near zero or negatively, meaning they either stayed silent on climate change or actively supported policies that exacerbate it.
Population is the driver of just about everything else and rapid population growth can exacerbate all kinds of challenges".
The design of our family payments system can create a perverse incentive in the form of a "low income" or "low participation" trap for women with young children, which child care costs only exacerbate.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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