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exasperar

Portuguese, verb/e.zas.peˈɾa(ʁ)/

exasperar is spelled E-X-A-S-P-E-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exasperar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exasperate (frustrate, vex, annoy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar mais áspero”.

What does exasperar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to exasperate (frustrate, vex, annoy)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. tornar mais áspero 2. irritar

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of exasperar

  • exaspero first-person present singular
  • exasperei first-person preterite singular
  • exasperado participle past
  • exasperares infinitive second-person singular
  • exasperarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • exasperardes infinitive plural second-person
  • exasperarem infinitive plural third-person
  • exasperando gerund
  • exasperados masculine participle past
  • exasperada feminine participle past
  • exasperadas feminine participle past
  • exasperas indicative present second-person
  • exaspera indicative present singular
  • exasperamos first-person indicative plural
  • exasperais indicative plural present
  • exasperam indicative plural present
  • exasperava first-person imperfect indicative
  • exasperavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce exasperar?

  • Brazil /e.zas.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [e.zas.peˈɾa(h)]
  • /e.zas.peˈɾa(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to exasperar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is exasperar in Portuguese?

exasperar appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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