make+worse
111exacerbate — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, acerbate, agent provocateur, aggravate, alienate, amplify, annoy, antagonize, augment, beef up, bitter, blow up, build up, chafe, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, damage, deepen, deteriorate …
112heat up — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, agent provocateur, aggravate, agitate, alienate, amplify, annoy, antagonize, arouse, augment, beef up, blow the coals, blow up, build up, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deepen, deteriorate …
113heighten — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, add to, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, augment, beef up, better, blow up, boost, build, build up, buoy up, cast up, complicate, compound, concentrate, condense, consolidate,… …
114hot up — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, agent provocateur, aggravate, amplify, annoy, augment, beef up, blow up, build up, chafe, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, cook, deepen, deteriorate, double, electric heat, embitter, enhance …
115intensify — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, accent, accentuate, accrue, accumulate, advance, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, appreciate, augment, balloon, beef up, bloat, blow up, boom, breed, broaden, build up, complicate,… …
116irritate — Synonyms and related words: abrade, afflict, affront, agent provocateur, aggravate, agonize, ail, alienate, amplify, anger, annoy, arouse, augment, bite, bother, bristle, bug, build up, burn, burn up, chafe, come between, convulse, crucify, cut,… …
117provoke — Synonyms and related words: abet, abrade, activate, affect the interest, affront, agent provocateur, aggravate, agitate, alienate, amplify, anger, animate, annoy, answer back, antagonize, arouse, attract, augment, awaken, badger, bait, be at,… …
118aggravate — [16] Aggravate originally meant literally ‘to weigh down’ or ‘to make heavier’ (it was modelled on Latin aggravare ‘to make heavier’, which in turn was based on gravis ‘heavy’, source of English gravity and grief; its first cousin is aggrieve… …
119impair — [14] If to repair something is to ‘put it right’, it seems logical that to impair something should be to ‘make it wrong’. In fact, though, logic has nothing to do with it, for the two words are quite unrelated. Repair comes ultimately from Latin… …
120aggravate — [16] Aggravate originally meant literally ‘to weigh down’ or ‘to make heavier’ (it was modelled on Latin aggravare ‘to make heavier’, which in turn was based on gravis ‘heavy’, source of English gravity and grief; its first cousin is aggrieve… …
