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Definition: Get Worse |
Get WorseVerb1. Deteriorate in health; "he relapsed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Get WorseSynonym: relapse (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: get well (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Get Worse |
| English words defined with "get worse": drop away, drop off ♦ fail, fall away ♦ regress, retrograde, retrogress ♦ slip, suffer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "get worse": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair--we throw gobs of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) | |
Lyrics | It's gonna get worse if he waits too long (Don't Lose My Number; performing artist: Phil collins) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't wait for the pain to get worse. (references) | |
Women's symptoms often get worse during menstruation. (references) | ||
Vision is likely to get worse again as the cataract grows. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "get worse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | cítit se hùř. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pahentua (be aggravated), huonota (deteriorate), huonontau (deteriorate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | sich verschlechtern (decline, deteriorate, fail, worsen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendahsyat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | peggiorare (aggravate, decline, deteriorate, exasperate, fall, fall off, go, go back, make worse, worsen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 悪"る (to get worse and worse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わるずれる (to get worse and worse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll ny smessey (degenerate, deteriorate, worsen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etgay orseway försämras (deteriorate). (various references) kötüleşmek (deteriorate, go down, retrograde, retrogress, sink, worsen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: egrets, ergots, greets, rewets, stereo, towers, wester, worset. | |
-3 letters: egers, egest, egret, ergot, erose, ester, ewers, geest, geste, goers, gores, gorse, grees, greet, grots, grows, ogees, ogres, reest, reges, reset, resew, resow, rewet, roset, rotes, serge, serow, sewer, sower, steer, stere, store, strew, strow, sweer, sweet, swore, terse, tores, torse, tower, trees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-o-r-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: grewsomest. | |
+3 letters: overweights. | |
+4 letters: overstrewing. | |
+5 letters: growthinesses, woolgatherers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74 57 6F 72 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   W o r s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074 0057 006F 0072 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718625781848571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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