exasperates
exasperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exasperate.
Meaning of exasperate
Verb (1)
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
- 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
- And this report
Verb (2)
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
- 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.
- quoted (from Punch magazine) in 2005, David Crystal, The Stories of English
Questions about exasperates
- What is exasperates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Exasperates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exasperate.
Words near exasperates in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exasperates (page history and authors); exasperate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “exasperates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/exasperates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.