Acerbates vs Ascerbates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between acerbates and ascerbates

is that acerbates is third-person singular of acerbate while ascerbates is third-person singular of ascerbate.

(head)

(acerbate)

(en adjective)

(rare) Embittered; having a sour disposition or nature.

(acerbat)

To exasperate; to irritate.

* 1869 , , Phineas Finn , ch. 51:

Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.

To make bitter or sour.

* (exasperate) provoke * (make bitter) sour, embitter

* acerbation

* ----

(head)

(ascerbate)

(en-verb)