• borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Yes, it close enough to a homonym that I can see your confusion. Exasperated is being fed up with something, exacerbated is something making a problem worse.

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        2 hours ago

        Edit - Oh, if you notice in your screenshot ddg got the definition you showed from wiktionary, so I wouldn’t treat that as an authoritative source.

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          44 minutes ago

          You never had anything to gain by choosing a different word in this discussion, your goal is to prove my chosen word wrong, and you’ve failed so far.

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        Dictionaries frequently show common usages, even when they are misnomers. Recommend taking this one onboard.