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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accommodate, adapt, adjust, agent provocateur, aggravate, alter, ameliorate, amplify, annoy, augment, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, blast, blight, bottom out, break, break up, build up, change, checker, chop, chop and change, come about, come around, come round, convert, corrupt, damage, debase, decline, deepen, deform, degenerate, degrade, denature, descend, deteriorate, deviate, dilapidate, disimprove, disintegrate, diverge, diversify, embitter, endamage, enhance, enlarge, exacerbate, exasperate, fall back, fit, flop, foul, get worse, grow worse, harm, haul around, heat up, heighten, hot up, humble, hurt, impair, improve, increase, injure, intensify, irritate, jibe, let down, lower, magnify, make acute, make worse, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, provoke, put back, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refit, reform, regress, relapse, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, retrograde, retrogress, revamp, revive, ring the changes, rot, sharpen, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, sicken, sink, slacken, slip back, sour, subvert, swerve, tack, taint, take a turn, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, vary, veer, warp, weaken, work a change
Dictionary Results for worsen:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
worsen
    v 1: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn:
         worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better,
         improve, meliorate]
    2: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen,
       aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate,
       amend, better, improve, meliorate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Worsen \Wors"en\, v. i.
   To grow or become worse. --De Quincey.
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         Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than
         improve.                                 --Carlyle.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Worsen \Wors"en\, v. t.
   1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
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            It is apparent that, in the particular point of
            which we have been conversing, their condition is
            greatly worsened.                     --Southey.
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   2. To get the better of; to worst. [R.]
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