Associations to the word «Worsened»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

WORSEN, verb. Grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened".
WORSEN, verb. Make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne