OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 27442

exasperate

/ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
exasperar
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.
The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposin…
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