The corpus record — Latin

exacerbo

exacerbo · v. a

To exasperate

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Ab urbe condita 5 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ex-ăcerbo — Lewis & Short

ex-ăcerbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (not anteAug.).

I To exasperate, irritate, provoke, make angry; to grieve, afflict: ut recenti aliqua ira exacerbarentur animi, Liv. 2, 35 fin.; 46; 6, 18; 8, 33; Suet. Tib. 62; 75; Plin. Ep. 8, 5, 2; Vulg. Psa. 9, 24 al.—

II In jurid. Lat., to aggravate, increase a punishment: supplicia, Dig. 48, 19, 16 fin.; cf.: crimen verbis impiis, Paul. Sent. 5, 29, 1; pass. impers.: crimine majestatis facto maxime exacerbatur in milites, ib. 48, 4, 7, § 4.

In the wild

exacerbatumque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.33.3
exacerbatur Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.5.2
exacerbatusque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.18.5
exacerbatoque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.43.11
exacerbatus Suetonius, Vitellius 14.4
exacerbati Suetonius, Tiberius 75.1

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