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    1. You don’t want to exacerbate the problem by stressing it again


    2. of greatest need and just wanted to exacerbate Melanie’s faults for


    3. She’d already mentioned that it wasn’t good for them to appear too close, and he didn’t want to exacerbate the situation


    4. Care should be taken in treating animals with bile duct problems, gall bladder inflammation or any type of intestinal obstruction as dandelion may exacerbate the problem in these cases


    5. Still I nurtured them with a festering indignation, something that I tended to exacerbate from time to time


    6. Then, to exacerbate matters for his family, he sent him to Leavenworth, KS, instead of Terminal Island, CA, where his family was more likely to visit


    7. problems to exacerbate and she became bed ridden


    8. This would render an advance on the Meuse and beyond still possible and would further exacerbate problems within the Allied command


    9. increasing oil prices in recent years by proposing payments to consumers; and even fuel tax reductions, which logically stand to exacerbate the growing imbalance between demand and


    10. ‘One hates to exacerbate your grim mood George, but there aren’t three of

    11. stimulate metabolic processes that exacerbate FBD and PMS


    12. The words ‘gone missing’ were the worse I could have chosen, sure to exacerbate Andrew’s


    13. “Well? Are you going to explain what the hell is going on? We’re under serious threat from the Shadow Witch - a threat you’ve seemed to exacerbate, I might add - you disappear and your assistant refuses to say anything


    14. stomach acid could initially exacerbate the situation)


    15. Iron deficiency is known to affect mood and can exacerbate depression, but it can only be diagnosed and treated by a doctor


    16. could exacerbate depression, so it should only be used for this purpose under a doctor’s


    17. “And this witch?” he asked calmly, trying not to exacerbate his brothers mood


    18. argument with models included to exacerbate the issue


    19. walk away rather than exacerbate it


    20. � Doubting ourselves in our first steps in our immediate community of personhood, feeling any sense of failure will exacerbate any other negative situation that child faces as that child grows older

    21. This need for some species, including humans, to be social, living together in close proximity and the need to belong to the same species group can facilitate and exacerbate the expression of the negative characteristics of base instincts


    22. For instance, some parents, sadly, abuse their children and so the commandment to do good and not sin, ‘to honour your mother and father,’ could not only exacerbate further abuse, but indeed destroy ‘God’s’ credibility in the eyes of those who are and have been harmed


    23. ’ That in turn will exacerbate the distressing situation in which the Court now finds itself; it will be very damaging to the country and it may be bad for your objective of restoring the Court to its former high standing


    24. ” That in turn will exacerbate the distressing situation in which the Court now finds itself; it will be very damaging to the country and it may be bad for your objective of restoring the Court to its former high standing


    25. I turned the spigots, adjusted the water temperature so that it was warm but perhaps not so hot as to exacerbate the pain of the wound


    26. As well, when such thinner stocks begin to sell off, their lack of trading liquidity will exacerbate their downside velocity, which increases the risk inherent in such stocks


    27. When there is a much larger amount of open interest in Puts, those options could actually help reduce demand for the stock if the price starts to fall, which would only exacerbate the drop in price


    28. One other behavioral bias has been found to cause and exacerbate momentum


    29. While I firmly believe that wealth-dependent risk aversion (implying countercyclical required returns) is an important real-world phenomenon, I also believe that psychological factors exacerbate boom–bust cycles


    30. Short options embedded in callable bonds exacerbate this feature

    31. CDOs exacerbate this phenomenon: due to tranching, the risk of default gets further concentrated into adverse economic states, substantially increasing the fair risk premium of senior tranches relative to rating-matched bonds or to junior tranches


    32. While the procyclical responses listed above can make sense individually for each institution, collectively such actions exacerbate market moves and make most investors worse off


    33. The experience of late wars shows us that each one served only to exacerbate the animosity of the nations against each other, to increase the unbearable burden of military despotism, and has involved the political and economic situation of Europe in a more melancholy and pitiable plight than ever


    1. Heading upwards had only exacerbated the problem


    2. His anger was exacerbated by the crowd, who cheered and clapped at the images, proud of themselves for supporting a genuine guy who did his duty for his country


    3. This continuing process only exacerbated the problem of overcrowding in all the habitable and temperate regions


    4. Higher fertility rates, common among the poor, exacerbated by lax immigration policies, have strained our nation‘s productive and material resources beyond their capacity to accommodate even the (basic) material requirements of its working classes


    5. It may be further argued that the rapid increase in urban crime, quickened in large measure by the gradual departure of (mostly) working and middle-class families to outlying regions, exacerbated the conditions of those who were unable to exercise similar options


    6. At that answer Hilderich’s face took on an expression of exacerbated disbelief but only for a moment, because an instant later both his and Amonas’ figures were vanishingly thin and elongated ghostly forms


    7. Maharaj exacerbated and his health declined rapidly


    8. The two trends of which Scruton writes, child-centered education and disinterest in substantive content, have been exacerbated by the “zeal of the egalitarians” who hate learning because real learning reveals differences in achievement levels


    9. Pre-existing internal tensions were exacerbated by debates over the party’s attitude towards American involvement in the war, followed by debates over whether


    10. whatever really exacerbated my depression, which was exacerbated

    11. there, and those men really exacerbated the pain and the harm


    12. Administrative functions sometimes appeared unmanageable, exacerbated by the ebb and flow of politics and pubic opinion, and the difficulty of affecting the supply and demand equation (Fuss, pp


    13. Although his fiancée had the tendency to exaggerate and a taste exacerbated by dramatics, in this occasion Leonardo had to agree with her appreciations


    14. When they asked Fabien about it, he shrugged and said enforcers only exacerbated problems within the residence modules because both Freemen and Vassals were happier sorting out their own affairs


    15. “I’m not a drunk,” he nearly shouted at the elder, except it exacerbated the hangover headache that afflicted him


    16. is exacerbated by the lack of side roads


    17. Even Terence’s tweed jacket was soaked through to his cotton shirt, and despite the still-warm temperature, the sudden dampness that seemed to penetrate down to his bones sent a chill, that was exacerbated by the thought of what they may find on their search, racing through him


    18. The emptiness and hollowness created by that finality and the lack of any remains only exacerbated the void into which he had just plunged and in a sense acted at the closure necessary to free him of that which had plagued him


    19. He saw the unmistakable fear in the eyes of the young man who had so dramatically and unwillingly been drawn into this sordid affair, only because of a shadow that he had seen in passing, and realized that no amount of words or guarantees would assuage those nervous tremblings that were only exacerbated by the strange, frantic search that had just been conducted


    20. exacerbated by the stillness all around him

    21. over a gourmet cuisine to calm his frazzled nerves, exacerbated by the day’s events


    22. Furthermore, the failure of Mussolini's military campaigns made the war unpopular in Italy, and this was exacerbated when he sent Italian troops to the eastern front and when he declared war on America


    23. Wickland could only surmise that it must be some lover’s quarrel that was exacerbated by the fact that Janet had received a shock that her boss and former lover had been killed


    24. The Netherlands were subsequently defeated by the English in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the huge debt France faced exacerbated internal discontent that helped lead to France’s own civil war within ten years


    25. In a bitter irony, that only exacerbated the local hostility towards Spacers around Acapulco and in Mexico


    26. arm with his other hand, which only exacerbated the issue and his hand flopped


    27. "Yes," Francis thought out loud, "there is probably a dual diagnosis here--perhaps borderline personality disorder, which often begins in early adulthood, exacerbated by his religious or spiritual problem, to use the DSM IV diagnosis


    28. The furore surrounding the British NHS last week was exacerbated around the apparent hypocrisy in how and if information should be shared


    29. her physically, she exacerbated the situation by using an abundance


    30. ” Until he just got exacerbated and

    31. This was exacerbated by Sam’s


    32. This is further exacerbated by the selective use of evidence known as facts in any legal system


    33. � These family labels get exacerbated by a school system that labels students soon and often


    34. These personal human dynamics may in turn be exacerbated and fermented by perceived and/or real ‘wounded’ sentiments and egos, and the distorted and perverted quest for personal benefits and security, juxtaposition with the desire for retribution and/or to be ‘right’ with ‘God’ and/or ‘powerful others’


    35. This attitude and spirit of judgment towards others, this sense of self-righteousness, is often based on an inner sense of personal pride, self-importance and arrogance that we possess, and which also may be exacerbated and triggered by personal ignorance and personal fear of the unknown and so, a fear of Self, others, the world and the Creator


    36. Our response to pain, suffering, and death could be exacerbated by, the thought and concept of a meaningless and temporal life without immortality


    37. exacerbated the icy grip of the panic that had completely immobilised him and everything


    38. that may be exacerbated by physical or mental activity


    39. This was partly because trolls generally are, in any case, but it was exacerbated by the fact that the sudden and instantaneous teleportation from its lair in the Rammerorck Mountains three thousand miles away and a thousand yards closer to the Rim had raised its internal temperature to a dangerous level, in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy


    40. Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union are still very tense, and Reagan has exacerbated the situation by publicly calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire

    41. This change in mood was likely exacerbated by a piece of shocking news—my former chief of staff, Tony Marcella, who had been battling ALS, had a heart attack and, at the age of forty-three, was on a ventilator and not expected to live


    42. A doctor confirmed that he had disastrously exacerbated his war injury


    43. ” Her wildness seems to have been exacerbated by the death of her brother, Ben, to whom she was very close


    44. ” This problem was, of course, exacerbated in the age of what had been dubbed the “info-blitzkrieg,” where it took superhuman strength to ignore the siren call of the latest tweet, or the blinking red light on the BlackBerry


    45. In addition, this effect has been exacerbated in many markets by the risk of high-frequency trading (HFT) programs that provide what is essentially predatory liquidity


    46. (Of course, it is impossible for most people to be better than the average!) This problem is exacerbated because trading tends to attract competitive, confident people to begin with


    47. Dealing with my emotions—rough stretch in middle of February where I felt I was underperforming, probably exacerbated some losses by staying at the desk while on the tilt, forcing trades


    48. The use of host tables on TCP/IP systems caused several problems, all of which were exacerbated as the fledgling Internet grew from a small “family” of networked computers into today’s gigantic network


    49. For me the situation was exacerbated since I had a number of clients in the stock as well, and I had to get them out first


    50. Once a thin stock like JAZZ begins to move higher, its price moves, one way or the other, can be exacerbated by its small size and lack of trading liquidity; hence buying a solid, reliable pocket pivot point as the stock acts very “quietly” provides a strong entry point as one tries to build a position in the stock












    1. It exacerbates racial tension, and treats Blacks as having a childlike mentality


    2. Stress exacerbates sleepwalking and makes it more extreme


    3. But we should never be lulled into a false sense of personal security and self worth - that potentially exacerbates the maladaptive attitudes of pride and arrogance, and thus, inevitable abuse of others - because we might hold a perceived privileged, distinguished and/ or powerful status, role or position in a particular community or society


    4. Dryness only exacerbates the problem


    5. They take anti-inflammatory medications for mechanical pain that is not inflammatory in nature, try remedies that do not address the cause of the problem, do physical therapy in ways that exacerbates the original problem


    6. To protect themselves, the market makers then widen spreads and step away from the inside market, which further exacerbates the impact of these large market orders


    7. • Investor reluctance to realize small losses (disposition effect) exacerbates momentum effects


    8. Judging by median returns that are not affected by extreme scenarios, using out-of-the-money instead of near-the-money strike prices exacerbates the losses from long calls, but improves the profitability of short puts


    9. Focusing on the median returns, which are not affected by extreme scenarios, replacing near-the-money strike prices with out-of-the-money strike prices exacerbates the losses from long puts, but improves the profitability of short calls


    10. The only way to improve the resolution is to increase the length of the data sample, which exacerbates the problems with stationarity and averaging out short-term results over the longer term

    1. He went on to say that they both seemed to be in failing health and the little one was exacerbating the situation


    2. That may be exacerbating it


    3. Brian answered, the obvious relief in his voice exacerbating my guilt


    4. but what troubled me was that it was exacerbating her


    5. and with the sun setting, the temperature was falling, only exacerbating


    6. The exacerbating itch in his rec-


    7. Earth diagnoses patient Earth with human cell starvation, and correlates starvation with lack of food and not money, the doctor will explain to the patient that it is monergic constriction, and the tumorous growth of corporatenisms, inhibiting the cell's acquisition of food, rather than curing it, that is both producing and exacerbating the human cells' starvation


    8. All too often, you unwittingly pass along the virus to a friend, family member, or business associate, exacerbating the problem by contaminating their systems with the same virus that infected yours


    9. The timber and logging industry in some places causes quickened erosion exacerbating the problems there, thus a better understanding needs to be considered in the decision-making process of where to farm and where to build


    10. Moreover, the repeated re-experience of painful experiences is like re-opening and exacerbating an old wound

    11. We have seen examples of systematic and nonsystematic physical, psychological and spiritual abuse in many cultures and societies as an outcome of perpetrators ignorance, arrogance, fear, paranoia and hatred exacerbating the hysterically blind following of misinformation and propaganda that affirms one’s beliefs, thoughts and feelings manifest from the mix of one’s intellect, cognitions and emotions interacting with one’s base desires


    12. The attitude of needing to ‘be right’ is dangerous one as it comes with exacerbating consequences


    13. And more so myself, as I turned inside out, the third season, unpredictable in all but its miserable promise, exacerbating the badness within me, a badness made profound by the city itself, and day after day, getting worse


    14. Standing at the sink in the half-bathroom at Lauren Ainsworth’s house, watching the rushing water pour over the wound in my hand, the water too hot, exacerbating the pain, but I don’t cool it down, because I’m gripped by a sense of a pending revelation related to the water and the blood and the pain, aware that there is something I know but do not know I know, something about blood and terrible pain and water


    15. When thin stocks break out through obvious resistance levels to new highs, the crowd tends to see them and hence is more able to run the stocks up, exacerbating the upside price movement


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    Synonyms for "exacerbate"

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    "exacerbate" definitions

    make worse


    exasperate or irritate