adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. [1/3 definitions] |
adulteration |
the act or process of adulterating, or making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. [1/3 definitions] |
aggravate |
to make worse. [1/2 definitions] |
aggravation |
the act or process of becoming worse; worsening. [2/4 definitions] |
backward |
toward a worse, less developed, or less efficient condition; retrogressively. [1/8 definitions] |
degenerate |
to decline from an original or former condition; change for the worse in nature or quality; deteriorate. [2/6 definitions] |
deprave |
to change for the worse, esp. morally; corrupt; pervert. |
down1 |
to or at a worse, inferior, or lower level or state. [1/21 definitions] |
downgrade |
a trend or turn toward a worse condition. [1/5 definitions] |
downhill |
to a worse state or condition. [1/5 definitions] |
hydra |
a many-sided problem that persists or grows worse even after part of it is solved. [1/4 definitions] |
might as well |
used to indicate an alternative course of action that cannot be any worse than what one is currently doing and may be the best course of action, even though it may not be the ideal thing or the thing that one had originally planned. [1/2 definitions] |
off year |
a year in which production or activity is less or worse than usual. [1/2 definitions] |
out of the frying pan into the fire |
from a bad position into one that is even worse. |
pervert |
to bring to a worse or lower state; debase. [1/5 definitions] |
progressive |
of an illness or disease, becoming increasingly worse. [1/8 definitions] |
vicious circle |
a situation in which the solution to a problem gives rise to another, which can be worse or may bring back the first with greater complications, thereby increasing the difficulty of solving any of them. [1/2 definitions] |
worse |
someone or something less good or more bad than another; that which is worse. [2/7 definitions] |
worsen |
to become worse; to increase in qualities that are unwanted or harmful. [2 definitions] |