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Word: Acerbate
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
mid 17th century; earliest use found in Nicholas Billingsley (bap. 1633, d. 1709), religious poet and Presbyterian minister. From classical Latin acerbāt-, past participial stem of acerbāre to embitter, to make worse, aggravate from acerbus
Definition:
To exacerbate (a negative feeling or problem); (occasionally) †to sour or embitter (a person) (obsolete).
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