Relapse vs Exacerbate - What's the difference?
relapse | exacerbate |
To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
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(intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
The act or situation of relapsing.
(medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
(obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
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In lang=en terms the difference between relapse and exacerbate
is that relapse is to fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice while exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate.As verbs the difference between relapse and exacerbate
is that relapse is to fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice while exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate.As a noun relapse
is the act or situation of relapsing.relapse
English
Verb
(relaps)- (Dryden)
Noun
(en noun)- Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen! — Milton.
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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.
