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zhoršit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • aggravate verb To make a bad situation, problem, or injury worse.
  • confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  • deteriorate verb To get worse in quality or condition.
  • exacerbate verb To make an already bad situation, problem or feeling noticeably worse.
  • slip verb To lose one's footing or grip and slide accidentally.
  • worsen verb To make or become worse.

Senses

zhoršit is used for these senses in English:

  • aggravate To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]
  • confound (sometimes, proscribed) To make something worse.
  • exacerbate (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).
  • slip (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

aggravate — full definition

  1. verb To make a bad situation, problem, or injury worse.
  2. verb To annoy or irritate someone.

confound — full definition

  1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
  3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
  4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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