Definition of exasperate

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, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=473764056&tag=Melville,+Herman,+1819-1891:+Moby-Dick,+or,+The+Whale,+1851&query=exasperate&id=Mel2Mob Moby Dick.

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