Usually means: Decline in quality or condition.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. worsening: Merriam-Webster
  2. worsening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. worsening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Worsening, worsening: Wordnik
  5. worsening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. worsening: Wiktionary
  7. worsening: Dictionary.com
  8. worsening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. worsening: Rhymezone
  10. worsening: FreeDictionary.org
  11. worsening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. worsening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worsening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (worsening)

▸ noun:  A worse situation; an aggravation or deterioration

Similar:
deterioration, decline in quality, worse, worseness, wasting, melioration, angerness, worriment, acerbitude, aggrievance, more...

Opposite:
improving, getting better, ameliorating

Types:
deterioration, decline, degradation, degeneration, decay, debasement, devaluation, downfall, more...

Phrases:
worsening situation, downturn worsening, opposite of worsening, progressive worsening, worsening cycle, more...

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    dark gray,     maroon,     deep red,     charcoal,     black, more...

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Similar:
deterioration, decline in quality, worse, worseness, wasting, melioration, angerness, worriment, acerbitude, aggrievance, more...

Opposite:
improving, getting better, ameliorating

Types:
deterioration, decline, degradation, degeneration, decay, debasement, devaluation, downfall, more...

Phrases:
worsening situation, downturn worsening, opposite of worsening, progressive worsening, worsening cycle, worsening of symptoms, worsening relationship, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     maroon,     deep red,     charcoal,     black, more...



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