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• The new law has little to commend it: it even worsens the legal certainty of the nation.From the entry commend
• Mild electrolyte disturbances are usually not clinically apparent, but if they worsen, symptoms begin.From the entry clinically
• The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.From the entry rehearsal
• Some conditions may remain subclinical until they resolve without intervention, whereas others worsen from subclinical to clinical status.From the entry subclinical
• He rode sidesaddle to avoid worsening his injured leg.From the entry sidesaddle
• The situation is, if anything, worsening rather than improving.From the entry if anything
• Flooding in cities is caused and worsened by asphaltization, mainly due to the road network.2024 August 2, @IndianUrbanist, Twitter. From the entry asphaltization
• The relationship between China and the West has worsened since U.S.2022 August 24, Steve Scherer, Ismail Shakil, “China warns of 'forceful measures' if Canada interferes in Taiwan”, in Tomasz Janowski…. From the entry west
• Judge George Daniels on Wednesday said the worsening coronavirus pandemic provided more urgency.2020 July 29, Priscilla Alvarez, “Judge blocks administration from implementing ‘public charge’ rule for immigrants during pandemic”, in CNN. From the entry daniels
• Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened.2019, Ruth Kelly, The Little Vineyard in Provence. From the entry fear
• Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2012. From the entry plight
• It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian. From the entry stream
• Insomnia worsened, severe anxiety, anorexia, (weight loss 17kgs,) increase in suicidal thougts, plans, and intention.2002, Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Methuen, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry sertraline
• The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical…. From the entry euthanasiate
• I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry typo
• But Banaban elders say relying on support from faraway places is not sustainable, especially as the climate crisis worsens.2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian. From the entry Banaban
• Correspondingly, increased endotoxin in portal system worsens tight junction dysfunction via decreasing intestinal occludin and claudin-1 expressions and increasing enterocytic apoptosis.2015 July 8, Tian-Yu Zhao et al., “IGF-1 decreases portal vein endotoxin via regulating intestinal tight junctions and plays a role in…. From the entry enterocytic
• For a year, I had a progressive worsening brown discoloration of the medial and distal third of the right great toenail.2013 April 7, Terry Graedon, Joe Graedon, quoting an internal-medicine physician, “Little research on how jock itch is spread”, in The…. From the entry great toenail
• An abnormal reading on a presurgical EKG led to another angiogram, which indicated that the original narrowing had worsened.2009 January 6, Jane E. Brody, “More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care”, in New York Times. From the entry presurgical
• Migraine is characterized by recurrent unilateral, often pulsating, headaches, worsened by physical activity and associated with nausea, photophobia and phonophobia.2005, Michael H. Silber, “Chapter 28: Headaches and sleep disorders”, in Christian Guilleminault, editor, Clinical Neurophysiology of…. From the entry migraine
• Warflation refers to inflation caused or worsened by armed conflict, primarily via disruptions in energy markets, trade flows, production costs and risk premiums.2025 June 17, Dr. S. K. Prakash, “Warflation adds to woes of economy”, in Industrial Economist. From the entry warflation
• Humidity and flying will worsen your sausage-like legs, so a trip to the Caribbean rain forest is not an ideal babymoon destination.2014, Jill Hoefs, Denise Jagroo, Your Best Pregnancy, page 84. From the entry babymoon
• Thirteen patients improved one point or more (improvers), 18 patients worsened in psychosis one point or more (worseners) and 14 did not change (nonchangers).2013, B. Angrist, G. D. Burrows, M. Lader, Recent Advances in Neuropsycho-Pharmacology: Selected Papers from the 12th Congress of the…. From the entry worsener
• This problem worsens as we add more variables (for example, whether or not either parent is numerophobic) or look at more levels of each variable.2013, David L. Streiner, A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry numerophobic
• Amatonormativity is oppressive when it privileges members of one form of caring relationship at the expense of noncomformists, whose opportunities are thereby significantly worsened.2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 98. From the entry amatonormativity
• Advocates for homeless people, the American Psychiatric Association and several left-leaning states, including New York, Illinois and Minnesota, argue that criminalizing homelessness only worsens the problem.2024 April 22, Shawn Hubler, “Homelessness Case Draws Unusual Alliances: Conservatives and California Democrats”, in The New York Times. From the entry criminalize
• Congestion off China's top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where a COVID-19 case was detected this week.2021 August 12, Muyu Xu, Gavin Maguire, “Major container ports in eastern China see worsening congestion after COVID-19 cases”, in Kim…. From the entry Ningbo
• With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times…. From the entry predominate
• What’s clear is that with wealth inequality at near record highs and income inequality predicted to worsen, we can’t afford to leave things as they are.2017 May 9, Faiza Shaheen, “Tax is getting a bad rap – it’s time to sex it up”, in The Guardian. From the entry sex up
• By appearing more dovish than the central bank actually is, the trade-off it faces between stabilization of inflation and stabilization fo the output gap is likely to worsen.2010, Jordi Galí, “The New-Keynesian Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis: Lessons and New Directions”, in Volker Wieland, editor, The…. From the entry dovish
• The Republican president is making a major political bet that his actions will not worsen inflation, cause financial aftershocks that could destabilize the worldwide economy or provoke a voter backlash.2025 February 1, Josh Boak, “Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could mean higher inflation and economic disruption”, in…. From the entry aftershock
• But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.2020 March 7, Tom Phillips, “'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides”, in The Guardian. From the entry femicide
• Parkinson's disease), in whom a total replacement leads to a worsening of the underlying disease whereas compartmental reconstruction avoids the effect of somato-agnosy (loss of sensation of a body part).2013, Norberto Confalonieri, Sergio Romagnoli, Small Implants in Knee Reconstruction, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry agnosy
• Weather conditions worsened and the bombers flew into a huge electrical storm that turned their propellers into giant firewheels, as one pilot reported, and blew them all over the sky.2009, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945. From the entry firewheel
• Slaves knew that some of the treatments worsened problems and, perhaps most important, they realized that a master's interest in their fitness for work was sometimes inimical to their health.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 66. From the entry inimical

Meaning of worsen

1. verb To make worse; to impair.
2. verb To become worse; to get worse.
3. verb To get the better of; to worst.

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How do you use worsen in a sentence?

Worsen is used as a verb. For example: “Global warming has worsened the weather.”

What is a short sentence with worsen?

“The weather has worsened.”

What does worsen mean?

Worsen means to make worse; to impair.