Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
EXASPERATE
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
(verb) make worse; “This drug aggravates the pain”
infuriate, exasperate, incense
(verb) make furious
exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate
(verb) exasperate or irritate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)
To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
Adjective
exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)
(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*as"per*ate, a. Etym: [L. exasperatus, p. p. of exsasperare to roughen, exasperate; ex out (intens.) + asperare to make rough, asper rough. See Asperity.]
Definition: Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.
Ex*as"per*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exsasperated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exasperating.]
1. To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. To exsasperate them against the king of France. Addison.
2. To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity. To exasperate the ways of death. Sir T. Browne.
Syn.
– To irritate; provoke. See Irritate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CRAZY
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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