empeorar — 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.
- downgrade noun A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
- exacerbate verb To make an already bad situation, problem or feeling noticeably worse.
- 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
empeorar 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.
- debuff (RPG, video games) To make a character or unit weaker.
- downgrade To place lower in position.
- exacerbate (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).
- 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.
aggravate — full definition
- verb To make a bad situation, problem, or injury worse.
- verb To annoy or irritate someone.
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").