exacerbation

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From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate.

)—may easily conceive what sharp paroxysms and exacerbations of his wound my uncle Toby must have undergone upon that score only. — The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, Laurence Sterne
But the spring was always her worst time as to health; and during this customary vernal exacerbation of illness, in April, 1866, she found herself obliged at last, after fourteen years' service, to send in her resignation to the Daily News. — Harriet Martineau, Florence Fenwick Miller

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