Usually means: To deteriorate or decline in quality.
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  1. worsen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. worsen: Merriam-Webster
  3. worsen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. worsen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. worsen: Collins English Dictionary
  6. worsen: Vocabulary.com
  7. Worsen, worse'n, worsen: Wordnik
  8. worsen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. worsen: Wiktionary
  10. worsen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. worsen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. worsen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. worsen: Dictionary.com
  14. worsen (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. worsen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Worsen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. worsen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. worsen: Rhymezone
  19. worsen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. worsen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. worsen: FreeDictionary.org
  22. worsen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. worsen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. worsen: Legal dictionary

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  1. worsen: Encyclopedia

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  1. worsen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (worsen)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.

Similar:
exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, decline, deteriorate, worst, impair, disimprove, pair, pejorate, more...

Opposite:
improve, get better, ameliorate

Types:
exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbation, aggravation, exaspiration, exasperation, more...

Phrases:
opposite of worsen, to worsen, worsen a knot, further worsen, worsen the situation, more...

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Similar:
exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, decline, deteriorate, worst, impair, disimprove, pair, pejorate, more...

Opposite:
improve, get better, ameliorate

Types:
exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbation, aggravation, exaspiration, exasperation, more...

Phrases:
opposite of worsen, to worsen, worsen a knot, further worsen, worsen the situation, continuing to worsen, worsen over time, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     black,     deep red,     maroon,     charcoal, more...



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