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exacerbation has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
“the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care”
violent and bitter exasperation
“his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for exacerbation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.