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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

악화시키다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: akhwasikida

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exacerbate/ɪɡˈzæs.ɚ.beɪt/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"스트레스는 증상을 더욱 악화시킬 수 있습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.

    "The heavy rain will only exacerbate the flooding in the region."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'exacerbat-', meaning 'provoked' or 'irritated', stemming from the prefix 'ex-' (out, thoroughly) combined with 'acerbus' (harsh, bitter). It entered English in the mid-17th century, initially retaining its literal medical and emotional sense of making a harsh condition or bitterness worse.

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