English
Pronunciation
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Verb
en-verb|exasperat|ing
#To frustrate, vex or annoy; to make angry.
#:1851 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, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads. — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
Translations
Dutch: tot het uiterste drijven
French: exaspérer
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Scottish Gaelic: sà raich
Spanish: exasperar
See also
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