exasperate

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
2. adjective Exasperated.
3. adjective Exasperated; embittered.
4. verb To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection.

Similar words

aggravate infuriate exacerbate outrage worsen incense vex agonize gall make someone's blood boil

Often followed by

the him them his me and her their a

Word family

exasperated exasperates exasperating