Exacerbate vs Debilitate - What's the difference?
exacerbate | debilitate |
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
* 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
To make feeble; to weaken.
As verbs the difference between exacerbate and debilitate
is that exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate while debilitate is to make feeble; to weaken.exacerbate
English
Verb
(exacerbat)- The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
Derived terms
* exacerbatingly * exacerbationSee also
* exasperate ----debilitate
English
Verb
- The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.