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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to worsening:   (113 results)

Antonyms:
bettering

Often used in the same context:
deteriorating, weakening, deepening, exacerbating, escalating, souring, intensifying, declining, persisting, improving, increasing, rising, darkening, shrinking, softening, decreasing, diminishing, eroding, slowing, afflicting, crippling, tightening, easing, stagnating, stabilizing, aggravate, affecting, plaguing, slackening, prolonged, mounting, spiraling, normalizing, abating, faltering, worrying, suffering, besetting, heightened, complicating, subsiding, plummeting, alarming, hardening, lessening, receding, ameliorating, degenerating, dwindling, clouding, festering, glooming, depressing, debilitating, plunging, strengthening, ebbing, palliated, accelerating, troubling, crumbling, thawing, hemorrhaging, fluctuating, downgrading, imperiling, snowballing, changing, crimped, depleting, looming, growing, slumping, ballooning, impacting, prevailing, protracts, blighting, widening, dampening, brightening, hurting, straitened, roiled, continuing, mushrooming, backsliding, ravaging, corroding, lingering, alleviating, arterial sclerosis, soaring, dire straits, engulfing, reflated, compounding, disintegrating, depreciating, decelerating, destabilizing, concerns

More specific:
downswing, downturn

Appears in the definition of:
downswing, downturn, flare

More general:
change of state, decline, diminution

Synonyms:
decline in quality, deterioration

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