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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : verb ig-zas-puh-reyt; adjective ig-zas-per-it |
Phonetic Transcription : verb ɪgˈzæs pəˌreɪt; adjective ɪgˈzæs pər ɪt |
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Définition of exasperating
Origin :- 1530s, from Latin exasperatus, past participle of exasperare "roughen, irritate, provoke," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + asper "rough" (see asperity). Related: Exasperated; exasperating.
- verb upset, provoke
- Then the exasperating remembrance, with its cruel irony, returned to him.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- The idea that Rose might lose her beauty was exasperating him.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- Very well, so much the better; the woman has been exasperating me!
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- Another who troubled her, who persisted in living with exasperating obstinacy!
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Into the details of this exasperating task we cannot here enter.
- Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin » by Paul Elmer More
- That is the pitiful part of it, pitiful and yet exasperating.
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
- She experienced an exasperating effect of trying to see round a corner.
- Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
- It was incredible, and, besides being incredible, it was exasperating.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- This, in our constant state of hungry irritation, was exasperating.
- Extract from : « The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" » by Joseph Conrad
- It is corded and wired in the most exasperating way, but at last I get it open.
- Extract from : « My Contemporaries In Fiction » by David Christie Murray
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