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Acervates vs Acerbates - What's the difference?

acervates | acerbates |

As verbs the difference between acervates and acerbates

is that acervates is third-person singular of acervate while acerbates is third-person singular of acerbate.

acervates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (acervate)

    • acervate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

    • Derived terms

    * acervately

    Verb

    (acervat)
  • (obsolete) To heap up.

    • Synonyms

    * (to heap up) heap, pile

    Related terms

    * acerval * coacervate ----

    acerbates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (acerbate)

    • acerbate

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (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.

    • Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * acerbation

    References

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