verschlechtern — meaning in English

English meaning

• adulterate adj Made less pure because another substance has been mixed into it.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• debauch noun A single occasion of excessive, immoral indulgence.
• deteriorate verb To get worse in quality or condition.
• exacerbate verb To make an already bad situation, problem or feeling noticeably worse.
• flaw noun A defect or imperfection, often one that is hidden or not obvious at first.
• impair verb To make something weaker or worse.
• worsen verb To make or become worse.

Senses

verschlechtern is used for these senses in English:

• adulterate (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
• confound (sometimes, proscribed) To make something worse.
• debauch (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
• deteriorate (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• deteriorate (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• exacerbate (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).
• flaw (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
• impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.

adulterate — full definition

1. adj Made less pure because another substance has been mixed into it.
2. adj (dated) Connected with, or resulting from, an affair with someone other than your spouse.

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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