The phrase "already exacerbated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that has worsened or intensified prior to the current moment.
Example: "The ongoing drought has already exacerbated the water crisis in the region."
Alternatives: "already worsened" or "already intensified".
The figures date from 2004, and there's little doubt that Facebook and texting and all the rest of it have already exacerbated the situation.
Syria's civil war has already exacerbated sectarian strife in Lebanon and Iraq — and the Turkish government has accused Mr. Assad of supporting Kurdish militants in order to inflame tensions between the Kurds and Turkey.
France's fear of literary decline, already exacerbated in 2005 by Harry Potter's and The Da Vinci Code's domination of best-seller lists, took a blow from within with the publication of Harcèlement littéraire, in which the writer Richard Millet, interviewed by two doting critics, savaged contemporary French literature as a wasteland devoid of style, theme, and interest.
"If on top of that you super-impose a situation where the materials they're injecting could also be non-sterile I think you've already exacerbated an already serious problem," he added.
Calorie-focused thinking may have already exacerbated the epidemics of obesity and related diseases.
Secondly, it needs to diffuse the political standoff between the developed and developing world and the tensions between China and America -- already exacerbated by the currency debate.
If it continues like this, he expects levels of pollution to double over the next 15 years.Then there is global warming, which is already exacerbating China's environmental problems.
"But it is a dramatic social change that's already exacerbating serious problems for which there are no easy solutions: Social isolation for the elderly and frail.
"Climate change is already exacerbating chronic environmental threats, and ecosystem losses are constraining livelihood opportunities, especially for poor people," wrote the authors.
Perhaps worse still, the fighting is already exacerbating ethnic tensions in what is an ethnically divided country.
Climate change is already exacerbating natural disasters that have claimed scores of human lives, from the wildfires in California to the hurricanes that have recently walloped the continental US and Puerto Rico.
