Making a current undesirable situation much more worse, especially if the situation could have been easily avoidable.
Tim's doctor said that he had already developed lung cancer, but Tim still decided to smoke, therefore further exacerbating his condition.

Sam knew he was struggling with porn addiction, but he was also very lonely. His loneliness further exacerbated his addiction.
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It means to make things worse.
"There's hundreds of Zombies outside, and they're really going to exacerbate things."
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To make an existing situation much worse than before
Faux News only helps to exacerbate the electorates intelligence level.
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To make a problem worse than it already is.
Don't exacerbate things!
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To masturbate furiously, and to the point of utter exhaustion
Last night, I went home, and exacerbated for literally 3 hours...I've never slept better
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She's so hot. You don't know how many times I've exacerbated while thinking about her
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To make worse or to worsen; opposite of helping
Jimmy's attempts to gain recongnition inhigh school only exacerbated his already troublesome identity crisis.
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The term used to describe the practice of masturbating to exhaustion as a quality form of exercise.
I totally killed my workout yesterday - I had to exacerbate to failure for 5 sets!
by Master Exacerbater October 25, 2012
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