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exasperate
English
Etymology
From Latin exasper?; ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asper? (“make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???zæsp(?)?e?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, also) IPA(key): /???z??sp??e?t/
- Rhymes: -æsp??e?t
- Hyphenation: ex?as?per?ate
Verb
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
- To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
- And this report
- Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3:
- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 11:
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
- 1987 January 5, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
- 2007 June 4, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
Translations
Adjective
exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)
- (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- Thersites. Do I curse thee?
- Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
- Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […]
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, Book 4, p. 177,[2]
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
- Sets spinning […]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
Related terms
See also
- exacerbate
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eksaspe?rate/, /e?zaspe?rate/
Verb
exasperate
- adverbial present passive participle of exasperar
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra?.te/, [?ks?äs?p???ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra.te/, [??z?sp?????t??]
Verb
exasper?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of exasper?
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ruffle
English
Etymology
From Middle English ruffelen, perhaps from Old Norse hrufla (“to graze, scratch”) or Middle Low German ruffelen (“to wrinkle, curl”). Further origin unknown. Related to Middle Dutch ruyffelen, German Low German ruffeln. See English ruff.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???f?l/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
ruffle (plural ruffles)
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
Synonyms
- (strip of fabric): frill, furbelow
Translations
Verb
ruffle (third-person singular simple present ruffles, present participle ruffling, simple past and past participle ruffled)
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- the fantastic revelries […] that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- 1860, Sir William Hamilton, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
Translations
Derived terms
- rufflement
- ruffler
- ruffle some feathers
- ruffle up
- ruffly
- unruffled
References
Anagrams
- Fulfer, luffer
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