piorar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- deteriorate verb To get worse in quality or condition.
- impair verb To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.
- worsen verb To make or become worse.
Senses
piorar is used for these senses in English:
- confound (sometimes, proscribed) To make something worse.
- 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.
- impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- suffer (intransitive) To become worse.
- worsen (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
- worsen (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
confound — full definition
- verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
- verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
- noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").
deteriorate — full definition
- verb To get worse in quality or condition.
- verb To make something worse.