acerbate

acerbate
v
1. embitter, bitter, exacerbate, envenom, sour, gall, rankle, poison.
2. exasperate, discompose, distress, ruffle, roil, pique, chafe, vex, grate, put out, try [s.o.'s] patience, Sl. drive [s.o.] nuts, Sl. get [s.o.'s] goat; anger, incense, enrage, infuriate, madden, raise [s.o.'s] ire, make [s.o.'s] blood boil.
3. irritate, aggravate, annoy, fret, hector, bother, nettle, perturb, disturb; torment, provoke, plague, badger, pester, persecute, harass, get on [s.o.'s] nerves.
adj
4. embittered, bitter, galled, rankled, resentful; acrimonious, virulent, rancorous, acerbic, acerb.
5. angry, irate, incensed, Inf. mad, Inf. sore, Sl. hot, Sl. hot under the collar, Sl. teed-off, Sl. ticked-off; livid, enraged, infuriated, furious.

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