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Worsen   /wˈərsən/   Listen
verb
Worsen  v. t.  
1.
To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. "It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened."
2.
To get the better of; to worst. (R.)


Worsen  v. i.  To grow or become worse. "Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Worsen" Quotes from Famous Books



... are now on the anvil; the discontented Colonies are all to be cured of their miseries by Constitutions. Whether that will cure their miseries, or only operate as a Godfrey's-cordial to stop their whimpering, and in the end worsen all their miseries, may be a sad doubt to us. One thing strikes a remote spectator in these Colonial questions: the singular placidity with which the British Statesman at this time, backed by M'Croudy and the British moneyed classes, is prepared ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle
... crashed. The roof's fallen in on him." And that had been Sabre's own belief. But it was not so. There are degrees of calamity. Dumfounded, stunned, aghast, Sabre would not have believed that conspiracy against him of all the powers of darkness could conceivably worsen his plight. They had shot their bolt. He was stricken amain. He was in the crucible of disaster and in its heart where the ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... one. You people got the rush-bug worsen some full-size cities aintyer? Butt out and gimme a ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... nor did they settle peace after these slayings. Thorbiorn the Tardy made much mocking at all this, therefore things began to worsen betwixt the men of Biarg and Thorbiorn Oxmain, so that therefrom fell much ill-will as came to be known after. No boot was bidden to Atli for his house-carle, but he made as if he knew it not. Grettir sat at home at Biarg until ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
... will have to be followed henceforth. The Provincial Chief-men (LANDES-AELTESTEN, Land's-ELDESTS, their title) are summoned, from nine or ten Circles which are likely to be interested: they appear punctually, and in numbers,—lest contumacy worsen the inevitable. King dines them, to start with; as many as 'ninety-five covers,'—day not given, but probably one of the first in Herrendorf: not Christmas ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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