exacerbate

a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.

everything conspires to exacerbate the situation.

these problems were exacerbated by central government's policies.

The drugs they gave her only exacerbated the pain.

The weather had exacerbated another problem by now: mildew, oidium and…..snails.

And the situation in France Telecom was exacerbated by the fact that so many workers were unsackable.