From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exacerbation \Ex*ac'er*ba"tion\ ([e^]gz*[a^]s'[~e]r*b[=a]"sh[u^]n) n. [Cf. F. exacerbation.]
1. The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
2. (Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; "the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care" [syn: {aggravation}]
2: violent and bitter exasperation; "his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "exacerbation": accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, arousal, arousing, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, chafe, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, electrification, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exaggeration, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, explosion, fomentation, fret, gall, galvanization, heating-up, heightening, incitement, increase, inflammation, information explosion, infuriation, intensification, irritant, irritation, lathering up, magnification, perturbation, pickup, population explosion, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, souring, speedup, steaming up, step-up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, strengthening, tightening, whipping up, working up, worsening
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