to aggravate a crisis
1crisis — n. 1) to cause, precipitate, provoke, stir up a crisis 2) to aggravate a crisis 3) to avert, forestall a crisis 4) to defuse, overcome, settle a crisis; to ride out a crisis 5) an acute, grave, serious; impending; mounting crisis 6) a cabinet;… …
2crisis — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, grave, major, serious, severe, terrible, worst ▪ the worst economic crisis for fifty years ▪ …
3aggravate — verb ADVERB ▪ seriously, severely ▪ Their negative reactions have greatly aggravated the situation. ▪ slightly ▪ further Aggravate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ …
4Financial Crisis of 2008 — ▪ 2009 Introduction by Joel Havemann In 2008 the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The contagion, which began in 2007 when sky high home prices in the United States finally turned… …
5Manila hostage crisis — The bus where the hostages were held captive. Location Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines …
6United Nations Industrial Development Organization — UNIDO redirects here. For the 1980–1987 Philippine opposition party, see United Nationalist Democratic Organization. United Nations Industrial Development Organization …
7List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …
8History of Portugal (1777–1834) — History of Portugal caption=Miguel I of Portugal, the TraditionalistThe history of Portugal from the beginning of Maria I s reign in 1777 to the end of the Liberal Wars in 1834 spans a complex historic period in which several important political… …
9The Sum of All Fears (film) — Infobox Film name = The Sum of All Fears caption = Theatrical poster for The Sum of All Fears . director = Phil Alden Robinson producer = Mace Neufeld writer = Tom Clancy (novel) Paul Attanasio, Daniel Pyne (screenplay) starring = Ben Affleck… …
10France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
