different between impaired vs exacerbate

English

Adjective

impaired

1. Rendered less effective.

   His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.

2. inebriated, drunk.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "impaired" is often applied: vision, hearing, mobility, healing, fertility, health, judgment, cognition, consciousness, memory, concentration, function, performance, ability, capacity, person, child, adult.
• Adverbs often applied to "impaired": visually, physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively.

Synonyms

• (rendered less effective):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

Verb

impaired

1. simple past tense and past participle of impair

Noun

impaired (plural impaireds)

1. A criminal charge for driving a vehicle while impaired.

   The cop gave me an impaired.

English

Etymology

From Latin exacerbo (“to provoke”); ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + acerbo (“to embitter, harshen or worsen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???zæs??be?t/, /?k?sæs-/
• (US) enPR: ?g-z?s'?r-b?t, IPA^(key): /???zæs??be?t/

Verb

exacerbate (third-person singular simple present exacerbates, present participle exacerbating, simple past and past participle exacerbated)

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

   The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.

   • 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]

     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
• exacerbation

Related terms

• acerbate

Translations

See also

• exasperate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exacerbate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

exacerb?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exacerb?