Synonyms for exacerbating
ex·ac·er·bat·ing

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1. aggravating, exacerbating, exasperatingadjective

   making worse

   Synonyms:
   maddening, infuriating, exasperating, vexing, aggravating

   Antonyms:
   moderating

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1. List of paraphrases for "exacerbating":

   aggravating, worsening, fuelling, compounding

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1. Joe Stork:

   Iraq can't win the fight against ISIS's atrocities with attacks on civilians that violate the laws of war and fly in the face of human decency, militia abuses are wreaking havoc among some of Iraq's most vulnerable people and exacerbating sectarian hostilities.

2. John Kinsey:

   Commodity prices are still weak, and that is exacerbating the tax-loss selling. Things are going to pretty much close down by the end of this week.

3. Emre Peker:

   If state-run banks slash rates and turn on the consumer-lending spigot ... the additional liras flooding the system will only drive more dollarisation - exacerbating financial and economic pressures.

4. Pablo Simon:

   The difference between Spain and other countries in Europe is that the level of polarisation was already very high before the crisis, the coronavirus is exacerbating it.

5. Walter Orenstein:

   An' overreaction of the immune system' appears to be one of the ways natural Covid-19 infection leads to serious illness and death. There is the theoretical risk that vaccines might trigger that, but I am not aware of any data to date that support an actual role for vaccines in exacerbating the clinical illness, in fact, the trials showed that the vaccines, such as the JJ vaccine, are more effective against serious disease than mild disease.