Thesaurus:worsen
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to become worse
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- atrophy
- break down
- crack (archaic)
- decline
- deteriorate
- degenerate
- devolve
- fade
- fall off
- go bad
- go downhill
- go left
- go off
- go pear-shaped
- go sideways
- go south
- go to hell
- go to pot
- go to seed
- go to the dogs
- go wrong
- lapse
- molder
- pejorate
- retrograde
- suffer [⇒ thesaurus]
- spend
- sweal
- shrivel
- tabefy
- wither
- wither away
- wane
- wanse
- worsen
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- burn [⇒ thesaurus]
- consume (obsolete)
- disintegrate
- dissipate
- forpine
- make matters worse [⇒ thesaurus]
- squander
- waste away (idiomatic)
- wear away (idiomatic)
Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- aggravate [⇒ thesaurus] (transitive verb)
- bad [⇒ thesaurus] (adjective)
- deteriorated [⇒ thesaurus] (adjective)
Further reading
[edit]- “659. Deterioration” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “worsen” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.