exasperated

Verb (1)

exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)

1. (transitive) To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
   • And this report
     Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
     Prepares for some attempt of war.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   aggravate, rile, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother

Verb (2)

exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)

1. (UK, humorous, obsolete, slang) To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection.
   • 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 for it.

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