Exacerbated vs Amplified - What's the difference?
exacerbated | amplified |
(exacerbate)
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]
(amplify)
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
(rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
* Dryden
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
As verbs the difference between exacerbated and amplified
is that exacerbated is (exacerbate) while amplified is (amplify).exacerbated
English
Verb
(head)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 ----amplified
English
Verb
(head)amplify
English
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(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.