To annoy someone greatly or to an extreme degree.
The child’s constant whining began to exasperate his mother. He kept asking for more candy, even though she had already said no three times. Her patience was wearing thin.
The toddler’s relentless banging on the metal pipes would exasperate even the most patient parent. Each clang echoed, a tiny, high-pitched sound that grated on the nerves. He wouldn't stop, his small hands just kept hitting, again and again.
The toddler's endless requests for a specific, slightly squashed raisin began to exasperate his mother. She’d offered a whole bunch, then a cookie, but nothing satisfied his tiny, unwavering demand, pushing her patience to its limit.
My cat's habit of batting my glasses off the table, then staring with wide, innocent eyes, truly does exasperate me. It’s like he *knows* I need them to find him, and he just… doesn’t care. Such a silly little troublemaker!
My cat, Sir Reginald Fluffernutter, insists on using my head as a personal trampoline at 3 AM. His constant, tiny paw taps on my nose to wake me for kibble exasperate me something fierce. I swear, one day he'll learn that sleep is not merely a suggestion for the unworthy.
The constant dripping faucet was starting to exasperate me. I’d tried tightening it, putting a cloth under it, everything, but the maddening *drip... drip... drip* continued, inching me closer to losing my mind.
The tiny, persistent chirping of the ornamental beetle, trapped in the ventilation grate for the third hour, began to truly exasperate Anya. Each rhythmic click and whirr added another layer to her mounting frustration as she wrestled with the recalcitrant bolt, the sound a tiny, buzzing torment.
The toddler's relentless, off key humming of a commercial jingle began to exasperate his mother. She had been trying to concentrate on calculating the precise viscosity of fermented yak butter for a culinary competition, but the repetitive, grating sound made her teeth ache.
My neighbor's polka music, played at full blast at 6 AM every Sunday, managed to deeply exasperate me. The tiny accordion notes seemed to burrow into my brain, a relentless assault that made me want to wear earplugs permanently and perhaps take up extreme napping.
My cat's relentless pursuit of that rogue dust bunny under the couch threatened to exasperate me. It batted, it yowled, it nudged my nose with its furry face. Honestly, the sheer dedication to vanquishing such a tiny foe was almost more effort than the dust bunny itself.
The toddler's endless demands to play the same game, over and over, began to exasperate his parents. Each repeated request grated on their nerves, pushing their patience to its limit. They just wanted five minutes of quiet.
The steady drip, drip, drip of the leaky faucet began to exasperate him, a maddening rhythm that chipped away at his resolve. He tried stuffing a towel under it, then tightening the handle again, but the persistent trickle continued its assault on his dwindling patience.
The perpetual drone of the amateur accordionist practicing the same discordant passage relentlessly began to exasperate him. He found himself clenching his jaw tighter with each misplaced note, the tinny melody piercing his concentration and fraying his nerves until he could barely tolerate another moment.
My uncle's relentless whistling of the same off-key jingle for three hours straight began to exasperate everyone present. The sheer repetition, delivered with the enthusiasm of a caffeinated squirrel, promised to drive even the most stoic individual to the brink of madness.
The sheer audacity of the ornamental gourd salesman, hawking his unusually lumpy wares with relentless optimism, began to truly exasperate Bartholomew. Each chirpy pronouncement about "artisanal squashes" and their "unique, existential heft" chipped away at Bartholomew's rapidly diminishing patience, threatening to unleash a primal howl typically reserved for sock-matching disasters.
His incessant tardiness and flimsy pretexts to exasperate her, a palpable wave of frustration washing over her with each passing minute he remained absent from their crucial meeting.
The incessant buzzing of the bio-luminescent gnats near the methane vents began to truly exasperate the astrobiologist. Hours of meticulous data collection were constantly interrupted by their persistent, irritating presence, making the already arduous survey an ordeal.
The incessant chirping of the parasitic larva burrowing through the antique astrolabe was enough to exasperate even the most stoic xenobotanist. After weeks of painstaking fieldwork, this sonic nuisance threatened to unravel all their meticulous preparations for specimen retrieval.
The incessant honking of the vintage ice cream truck, playing a particularly discordant rendition of "Pop Goes the Weasel" at three in the morning, was sufficient to wholly exasperate even the most stoic of insomniacs. Their patience, already a dwindling commodity, evaporated like dew under a desert sun.
The persistent echolocation of the tardigrade, performing its subterranean ballet amidst the fossilized detritus, began to truly exasperate Bartholomew, the subterranean lichenologist. Its minuscule, rhythmic tapping, like a microscopic jackhammer against his very sanity, threatened to incite a profound, fungal-based fury.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.