verb
- Grow worse.
- usage: "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- Make worse.
- usage: "This drug aggravates the pain"
- synonyms: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
adjective
- Changed for the worse in health or fitness.
- usage: "I feel worse today"; "her cold is worse"
- synonyms: worse
- Made or become worse; impaired.
- usage: "troubled by the worsened economic conditions"; "the worsened diplomatic relations"
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