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Worsed vs Worsen - What's the difference?

worsed | worsen |

As verbs the difference between worsed and worsen

is that worsed is past tense of worse while worsen is to make worse; to impair.

worsed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (worse)

  • worse

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bad)
  • Your exam results are worse than before.
    The harder you try, the worse you do.
  • More ill.
  • She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse .

    Derived terms

    * go from bad to worse * worse for wear

    Adverb

    (head)
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  • (ill).
  • Less skillfully.
  • More severely or seriously.
  • (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
  • Verb

    (wors)
  • (obsolete) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
  • * (rfdate) Milton.
  • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

    Statistics

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    Noun

  • (obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  • * Bible, Kings xiv. 12
  • Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
  • That which is worse; something less good.
  • Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    worsen

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make worse; to impair.
  • * The global warming has worsened the weather.
  • * Southey
  • It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened .
  • To become worse; to get worse.
  • * The weather has worsened .
  • (obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.
  • Synonyms

    * deteriorate

    Antonyms

    * improve * ameliorate