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worsening

worsening

3.9
Becoming worse or more serious over time
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɜːrsənɪŋ/
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  • The worsening traffic during rush hour frustrated many drivers.

Other people eat them and they have inflammation, either inflammation in their skin or in their joints or in their gut, or inflammation that shows up as worsening mental health.

Examples

  • Other people eat them and they have inflammation, either inflammation in their skin or in their joints or in their gut, or inflammation that shows up as worsening mental health.

  • Most of that huge growth, unfortunately, came at the cost of sharply worsening imbalances and massively wasted investment.

  • But the fact that we're here and it's now worsening is a little bit of A cause for concern.

  • But after that, I started to see the kind of it worsening from there.

  • Advertising is worsening going into December.

  • But I found that my alcohol use was actively creating problems and worsening my health, so I chose to stop.

  • It also means no one wants to buy, further worsening the situation.

  • The patient's condition is worsening despite the treatment.

  • Her symptoms have been worsening over the past week.

Synonyms

to get worse
vsworsening
390 2.5

To become more serious, often about health or a situation

is broader and not limited to health examples
to decline
vsworsening
344 3.7

To become less over time, for example in value or health

focuses on a fall in condition or quality rather than size
to deteriorate
vsworsening
146 5.9

To get worse in quality, condition, or value

is the general process word rather than a specific verb form
to worsen
vsworsening
61 3.9

To make a situation or condition less good

is the noun form describing the process rather than the action
decay
vsworsening
50 4.5

The gradual loss of strength or good condition over time

does not require slowness and covers any increase in severity
deterioration
vsworsening
43 5.9

A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse

is a general term for becoming more severe or worse
to exacerbating
vsworsening
7.5

To make a problem or feeling worse

refers to the state that gets more severe rather than the cause

Antonyms

1.4

Becoming better over time

How Severe

collapse
350 4.1
worsening
3.9
deterioration
43 5.9
to decline
344 3.7
decay
50 4.5

Surface Forms

worsening positive

Morphology

worsening = worsen (transparent) = worse + en + ing

The form is a regular -ing nominal/participial derivation from the verb 'worsen', which clearly means 'become worse'.

Etymology

Worsening comes from the common word worse, which means 'more bad', plus the ending -ing that shows 'becoming' or 'in progress'. So, worsening describes something that is becoming more bad or more severe.