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Worsening

adjective

Changing for the worse.

noun

Process of changing to an inferior state. Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, deterioration.

Changing something with the result that it becomes worse.

Worsen

verb

Grow worse. Synonym: decline.

Make worse. Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate.

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"Worsening" Quotes from Famous Books

... for some reason, has become awry, threatening to topple down the structure erected upon it. Society can see nothing to originate, an incalculable number of attempts to better human conditions always proving failures, and worsening the human status. It is dawning upon the minds of the true lovers of humanity, that there is nothing else to be done, but to revert to the past to find the key to any possible reform, and to that past ...

— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.