become worse

verb

Roget 659: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated etc. Adj.; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane etc. (decrease) 36; ebb; retrograde etc. 283, decline, droop; go down etc. (sink) 306; go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.    run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale^†, sweal^†; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break^†, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel etc. (contract) 195; fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; fall into the sear and yellow leaf," rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish etc. 162; die etc. 360.    [Render less good] deteriorate; weaken etc. 160; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison^†, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate^†, pollute, vitiate, inquinate^†; debase, embase^†; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain etc. (dirt) 653; discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.    pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious etc. 945.    embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.    injure, impair, labefy^†, damage, harm, hurt, shend^†, scath^†, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage etc. 791.    wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate^†, cripple, hough^†, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.    blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy etc. 162.    damnify etc. (aggrieve) 649^†; do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate.    ... show more

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