make+worse
121impair — [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… …
122aggravate — [ag′rə vāt΄] vt. aggravated, aggravating [< L aggravatus, pp. of aggravare, to make heavier < ad , to + gravis, heavy: see GRAVE1] 1. to make worse; make more burdensome, troublesome, etc. 2. Informal to exasperate; annoy; vex SYN.… …
123ag´gra|va´tor — ag|gra|vate «AG ruh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. 1. a) to make worse or more severe: »His bad temper was aggravated by a headache. SYNONYM(S): increase, augment, intensify, exacerbate. b) to make more burdensome or mo …
124ag´gra|vat´ing|ly — ag|gra|vate «AG ruh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. 1. a) to make worse or more severe: »His bad temper was aggravated by a headache. SYNONYM(S): increase, augment, intensify, exacerbate. b) to make more burdensome or mo …
125ag|gra|vate — «AG ruh vayt», transitive verb, vat|ed, vat|ing. 1. a) to make worse or more severe: »His bad temper was aggravated by a headache. SYNONYM(S): increase, augment, intensify, exacerbate. b) to make more burdensome or mo …
126aggravate — verb /ˈæɡ.rə.vet/ a) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. To aggravate my woes. b) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate… …
127Republican and conservative support for Barack Obama in 2008 — United States President Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election. Republican and conservative… …
128complicate — I verb aggravate, bedevil, befoul, confound, confuse, dislocate, disorganize, embroil, encumber, entangle, exacerbate, implicate, intensify, involve, jumble, knot, make intricate, make worse, mix up, muddle, obfuscate, obscure, perplex, perturb,… …
