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Past tense of exacerbate

regular verb

The past tense of exacerbate is exacerbated. The past participle is also exacerbated.

Forms of exacerbate

Base form (V1)exacerbate /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/
Past tense (V2)exacerbated
Past participle (V3)exacerbated
Present participleexacerbating
Third person singularexacerbates

Exacerbated in a sentence

  • Sino-Soviet relations were exacerbated by a border incident on May 9.1986, Peter P. Cheng, “1978: The Four Modernizations on the March”, in Chronology of The People's Republic of China, 1970-1979, Scarecrow...
  • The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian
  • But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023. From the entry vertiginous
  • The increasingly dysfunctional socio-economic conditions exacerbated the increase in extreme healing practices and general religious conmanship.2020, Mookgo S. Kgatle, Allan H. Anderson, The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism. From the entry conmanship
  • Vincent were “underhanded” and the phenomenon of runaways, or marronage, only exacerbated the problem.2012, Christopher Taylor, The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna, page 1617033111. From the entry underhanded

Meaning of exacerbate

  1. verb To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).

Full definition of exacerbate

Questions about the past tense of exacerbate

What is the past tense of exacerbate?
The past tense of exacerbate is exacerbated.
What is the past participle of exacerbate?
The past participle of exacerbate is exacerbated.
Is exacerbate a regular or irregular verb?
Exacerbate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exacerbate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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