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worsening
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worsening
about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aggravation, alteration, amelioration, amplification, annoyance, apostasy, augmentation, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, coming apart, constructive change, contentiousness, continuity, conversion, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, deepening, defection, degenerate, degeneration, degenerative change, deliberate aggravation, deteriorating, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disintegrating, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fading, failing, falling, fitting, flagging, flip-flop, fragmenting, going to pieces, gradual change, heightening, improvement, increase, intensification, irritation, languishing, magnification, marcescent, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pining, provocation, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regressive, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, retrograde, retrogressive, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sharpening, shift, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, souring, subsiding, sudden change, switch, tabetic, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, waning, wasting, wilting, witheringROGET THESAURUS
worsening
Aggravation
N aggravation, worsening, heightening, exacerbation, exasperation, overestimation, exaggeration, aggravated, worse, unrelieved, aggravable, aggravating, out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and worse, Int, so much the worse!.For further exploring for "worsening" in Webster Dictionary Online