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worsening
Overview of noun worsening
The noun worsening has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening -- (process of changing to an inferior state)
2. worsening -- (changing something with the result that it becomes worse)
Overview of verb worsen
The verb worsen has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) worsen, decline -- (grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened")
2. worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate -- (make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain")
Overview of adj worsening
The adj worsening has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. worsening -- (changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Sense 1
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
=> decline, diminution
=> decrease, decrement
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
worsening
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Sense 1
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
=> slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off
Sense 2
worsening
=> downturn, downswing
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Sense 1
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
=> decline, diminution
Sense 2
worsening
=> change of state
Antonyms of noun worsening
Member Holonyms of noun worsening
Substance Holonyms of noun worsening
Part Holonyms of noun worsening
Member Meronyms of noun worsening
Substance Meronyms of noun worsening
Part Meronyms of noun worsening
Meronyms of noun worsening
Holonyms of noun worsening
Attributes of noun worsening
Derived Forms of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Sense 1
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
RELATED TO>(verb) worsen#1
=> worsen, decline
Sense 2
worsening
RELATED TO>(verb) worsen#2
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
Domain of noun worsening
Domain Terms of noun worsening
Familiarity of noun worsening
worsening used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Sense 1
deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
> decline, diminution
=> deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
=> detumescence
=> ebb, ebbing, wane
=> erosion
=> loss
=> nosedive
=> sinking spell
=> slippage
Sense 2
worsening
> change of state
=> aeration
=> passage, transition
=> meddling, tampering
=> transfer, transference
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> nullification, override
=> reversal
=> beginning, start, commencement
=> arousal, rousing
=> cooking, cookery, preparation
=> seasoning
=> infusion
=> improvement
=> beautification
=> decoration
=> worsening
=> degradation, debasement
=> change of color
=> soiling, soilure, dirtying
=> wetting
=> chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
=> defoliation
=> specialization, specialisation
=> spiritualization, spiritualisation
Meronyms of noun worsening
2 senses of worsening
Holonyms of noun worsening
Grep of noun worsening
worsening
Antonyms of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
Antonym of better (Sense 3)
=>better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
Antonym of better (Sense 2)
=>better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
=> change
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
=> inflame
=> sicken, come down
=> devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> deprive, impoverish
=> fail
=> tumble
=> slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
=> suffer
=> suffer, lose
=> regress, retrograde, retrogress
=> turn down
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> irritate
=> inflame
=> degrade, cheapen
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> change, alter, modify
'Cause To' of verb worsen
Derived Forms of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
RELATED TO>(noun) worsening#1
=> deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
RELATED TO>(noun) worsening#2
=> worsening
Domain of verb worsen
Domain Terms of verb worsen
Familiarity of verb worsen
worsen used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb worsen
2 senses of worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
> change state, turn
=> wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
=> zonk out, pass out, black out
=> come to, revive, resuscitate
=> tense, tense up
=> relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
=> reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> gain, put on
=> dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
=> cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise
=> conceive
=> secularize, secularise
=> citrate
=> equilibrate
=> fall
=> become, go, get
=> worsen, decline
=> better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
=> disengage
=> overgrow
=> concentrate
=> break
=> acidify, acetify
=> alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify
=> ionize, ionise
=> ossify
=> catalyze, catalyse
=> get worse, relapse
=> fluctuate
=> explode, burst forth, break loose
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> be born
=> cloud over
=> carbonize, carbonise
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, hot up, heat up
=> carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise
=> freeze
=> boil
=> burn, combust
=> emaciate
=> Frenchify
=> thin
=> thicken, inspissate
=> solvate
=> react
=> dissolve, fade out, fade away
=> empty, discharge
=> fill, fill up
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> curdle, clabber, clot
=> clot, coagulate
=> sour, turn, ferment, work
=> integrate
=> precipitate
=> calcify
=> coke
=> carnify
=> chondrify
=> emulsify
=> denitrify
=> esterify
=> etherify
=> thrombose
=> open, open up
=> close, shut
=> sorb, take up
=> calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it
=> thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
=> emancipate, liberate
=> get into, tangle with
=> liquefy
=> erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb worsen
Sense 1
worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
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Sense 2
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> change, alter, modify
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Grep of verb worsen
worsen
Antonyms of adj worsening
1 sense of worsening
Sense 1
worsening (vs. bettering)
bettering (vs. worsening)
=> ameliorating(prenominal), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative
=> amendatory
=> corrective
=> remedial
Similarity of adj worsening
1 sense of worsening
Sense 1
worsening (vs. bettering)
Pertainyms of adj worsening
Attributes of adj worsening
Domain of adj worsening
Domain Terms of adj worsening
Familiarity of adj worsening
worsening used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj worsening
worsening
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