Difference between Aggravate and Exasperate

AGGRAVATE vs EXASPERATE: ADJECTIVE

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate.
To annoy or exasperate: : annoy.
To make worse or more troublesome.

To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of.
To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter.
To increase the gravity or intensity of.

Literally, to add weight to or upon; increase the amount, quantity, or force of; make heavier by added quantity or burden.
To make more grave or heavy; increase the weight or pressure of; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: as, to aggravate guilt or crime, the evils or annoyances of life, etc.
Synonyms To heighten, raise, increase, magnify; overstate. See list under exaggerate.
To provoke; irritate; tease.
To exaggerate; give coloring to in description; give an exaggerated representation of: as, to aggravate circumstances.

Irritated; inflamed.
In botany, rough; covered with hard, projecting points.
To irritate to a high degree; make very angry; provoke to rage; enrage: as, to exasperate an opponent.
To make grievous or more grievous; aggravate; embitter: as, to exasperate enmity.
To augment the intensity of; exacerbate: as, to exasperate inflammation or a part inflamed.
Synonyms Provoke, Incense, Exasperate, Irritate; vex, chafe, nettle, sting. The first four words all refer to the production of angry and generally demonstrative feeling. Irritate often has to do with the nerves, but all have to do with the mind. Provoke is perhaps the most sudden; exasperate is the strongest and least self-controlled; incense stands second in these respects.
To increase in severity.
To incite by means of irritation; stimulate through anger or rage; stir up.

Darken, Reinforce, Contribute, Rile, Deteriorate, Escalate, Intensify, Heighten, Deepen, Provoke, Inflame, Complicate, Exasperate, Worsen, Exacerbate

Bemuse, Enrage, Annoy, Irk, Bewilder, Perplex, Frustrate, Irritate, Vex, Incense, Outrage, Worsen, Exacerbate, Aggravate, Infuriate

Darken, Reinforce, Contribute, Rile, Deteriorate, Escalate, Intensify, Heighten, Deepen, Provoke, Inflame, Complicate, Exasperate, Worsen, Exacerbate

Bemuse, Enrage, Annoy, Irk, Bewilder, Perplex, Frustrate, Irritate, Vex, Incense, Outrage, Worsen, Exacerbate, Aggravate, Infuriate

It just means that much of the new share holders are weak hands and could exasperate a selloff.
That was a course which in his opinion would be the most likely of all to exasperate.
And then she spat at him to exasperate him more.
The ible is challenging us as parents to not provoke, exasperate, scold and nag our children.
Unrepresented dealing with the bar can contribute to or exasperate numerous errors.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, for fear they may grow disheartened.
Exasperate gives the impression of being harsh and causing discouragement.
SYN: Inflame, irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, exasperate, chafe, gall.
Slaves could bargain, outwit, and exasperate their masters.
Exasperate, provoke, wound, make worse, intensify, embitter, heighten.