The word 'exacerbating' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which a problem or difficulty is made worse or more severe. Example sentence: The lack of funds was exacerbating the already dire situation.
Ever since he floated the idea during the election campaign of a new right-to-buy scheme aimed at housing association tenants, Cameron has been receiving warnings from the housing industry of the possibility that he will be exacerbating Britain's already acute housing crisis.
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While greens welcomed the Channel tunnel as investment in public transport, he damned it as "designed to further increase our economic activity, exacerbating our rapidly deteriorating environment".
Concern that Greece could fall into Russia's orbit has caused disquiet in the Obama administration, exacerbating fears that Athens could be headed for the euro exit door with possibly disastrous consequences for security on Nato's south-eastern flank.
Universities need to create spaces and make time for students to explore and look after themselves, rather than exacerbating the very problems that require such spaces.
The officers were not indicted, exacerbating historic distrust.
First Great Western said overrunning engineering works, with no trains running between London Paddington and Reading, were further exacerbating the problem.
And is the government making progress in its ambition to rebalance the British economy – given the recovery is exacerbating pre-crisis disparities between manufacturing and services, investment and consumption, and wage earners and capital, hence the continuing squeeze on UK living standards.
It may also prove the high-water mark in decades of steady trade liberalisation that has fuelled globalisation but is blamed for exacerbating economic inequality within many developed economies with the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs.
When we consider the entertainment industry's role in exacerbating this 'ear-bleeding' culture, it's clear they have an important responsibility to help change it, and keep people's hearing safe.
If there were any remaining doubts that arms sales take precedence over human rights or concerns about exacerbating regional tensions, the British government has been unashamedly quashing them.
