Difference between Exacerbating and Aggravating

What is the difference between Exacerbating and Aggravating?

Exacerbating as a verb is to make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate. while Aggravating as a verb is to make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

Exacerbating

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate.

Aggravating

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.

We hope you now know whether to use Exacerbating or Aggravating in your sentence.

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