worsen
Example Sentences
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“While labor markets have softened, conditions do not appear to be worsening,” he says.
That will inevitably lead to further temperature records – and worsening weather extremes – unless emissions are sharply reduced, scientists warn.
From BBC
The growing power cuts, worsening water shortages and increasingly worthless currency fueled an impression among many Iranians that the state was beginning to fail.
Since then, the situation in Venezuela has worsened.
Analysts say the Emiratis are nonetheless unlikely to formally recognise Somaliland as that would worsen its already terrible relations with regional rival Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.