Usually means: Decline in quality, effectiveness, or condition.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word worse:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. worse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. worse, the worse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. worse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. worse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. worse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Worse, worse: Wordnik
  7. worse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. worse: Wiktionary
  9. worse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. worse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. worse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. worse: Dictionary.com
  13. worse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. worse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Worse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. worse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. worse: Rhymezone
  18. worse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. worse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. worse: Free Dictionary
  21. worse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. worse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. worse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. worse: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. worse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Worse: Sports Definitions

(Note: See bad as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Less skillfully.
adverb:  More severely or seriously.
adverb:  (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
noun:  (obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat
noun:  That which is worse; something less good.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.

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