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whither
English
Etymology
From Old English hwider, alteration of hwæder, from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???ð?/; enPR: hw?th??r
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???ð?/
- (in accents with the wine-whine merger) IPA(key): /?w?ð?/, /?w?ð?/
- Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
- Homophone: wither (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Adverb
whither (not comparable)
- (archaic, formal, poetic or literary) To what place.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
- And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 8
- The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
Usage notes
- This word is unusual in modern usage; (to) where is much more common. It is more often encountered in older works or when used poetically or jocularly.
- It is also sometimes used as a rhetorical device by journalists and other writers in headlines, with the meaning "What will the future bring for ..."
- Do not confuse with whether or wither.
- Compare to the inanimate pronoun "whereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".
Antonyms
- whence
Derived terms
Related terms
- hither
- thither
- whithersoever
Translations
Verb
whither (third-person singular simple present whithers, present participle whithering, simple past and past participle whithered)
- (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To wuther.
whither From the web:
- what withers
- what withers away
- what wither means
- what withered animatronic are you
- what wither rose do
- what whither means
- whithersoever meaning
- what withers dog
exacerbate
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)
- (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
- second-person plural present active imperative of exacerb?
exacerbate From the web:
- what exacerbates shingles
- what exacerbates eczema
- what exacerbates gout
- what exacerbates asthma
- what exacerbates arthritis
- what exacerbates tinnitus
- what exacerbates endometriosis
- what exacerbates rosacea
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