Worsen: alternatives and connections

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,…

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To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

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To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

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To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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To render null and void.

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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

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Retrogression.

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To make sick; to disease.

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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

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The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional t…

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The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional t…

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

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Exasperated; imbittered.

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