Exasperate [Ig'zRspqreIt] - обострять, усиливать

1. Cyrus Harding alone waited with his habitual patience, although his strong mind was exasperated at being confronted with such an inexplicable fact, and he was provoked at himself for allowing a feeling to which he could not give a name, to gain an influence over him. Один лишь Смит ждал с присущим ему хладнокровием, и хотя его мысль упорно работала, он терялся в догадках не находя объяснений; он негодовал, размышляя о том, что они окружены какими-то, очевидно, могущественными силами, а он не в состоянии понять, что это такое.
2. On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. При этом задетая гордость усилила / обострила ее гнев еще больше.

• He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "But I am speaking to you!" replied the young man, additionally exasperated with this mixture of insolence and good manners, of politeness and scorn. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
• What was formerly a compliance with policy and superstition has been exasperated into a gratification of vengeance. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., by Washington Irving
• There were times when the beautiful things about him only exasperated his discontent. Roderick Hudson, by Henry James
• They have discovered heathens and barbarians whom by horrible cruelties they have exasperated into savages. Typee: A Romance of the South Sea, by Herman Melville