Definition of "exacerbating" []

• Present participle of exacerbate. (verb)

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• "Lesson to be learned: Activists on the left are much more interested in exacerbating their differences to the point of sectarian bickering than in uniting their efforts to accomplish even one thing they can mostly agree on, which leads to the prominence of rightwing maniacs that no one agrees with but that at least present a unified front of crazy instead of 37 different flavors of it."
• "Bob McDonnell, citing the rising influence of the Christian right in exacerbating “discrimination” against gays and women."
• "I think some of it had to do with the post 9/11 moment and some of it was due to their complicity in exacerbating the permanent campaign culture."