Acerbate vs Acervate - What's the difference?
acerbate | acervate |
To exasperate; to irritate.
* 1869 , , Phineas Finn , ch. 51:
To make bitter or sour.
(chiefly, botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
(obsolete) To heap up.
As adjectives the difference between acerbate and acervate
is that acerbate is (rare) embittered; having a sour disposition or nature while acervate is (chiefly|botany|rare) heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.As verbs the difference between acerbate and acervate
is that acerbate is to exasperate; to irritate while acervate is (obsolete) to heap up.acerbate
English
Verb
(acerbat)- Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.