Worsen in a sentence as a verb

The effect seems to worsen exponentially with database size.

So we end up with spending cuts that will almost certainly worsen the deficit over a do-nothing approach.

Acts all surprised when an OS update includes revisions to the graphics drivers, which caused the bad behavior to worsen.

Old people vote en mass; that's a major reason we've having fiscal problems related to Medicare and why those are going to worsen as time goes on.

The database is the bottleneck, so sharing regions between servers would only worsen performance.

But you brought up public health, and from a public health standpoint there absolutely is an interest in denying people access to technology that would worsen an epidemic!

Sometimes there's a little too much spin and moderators should step in to fix it, but sometimes moderators step in and worsen the problem; that's a legitimate issue to solve for the benefit of HN.

By confronting them, you'll only force them to worsen their behaviour in defence at which point they might condemn or criticise you unfairly, leaving you with a lower opinion of yourself undeservedly.

Even if that correlation remains small, the top rung of that ladder is so far out of reach of everyone else, -and- incorporates an insanely disproportionate amount of money, power, and influence, that it will likely remain forever out of reach, while allowing for policies that markedly worsen the lives of those on lower rungs.

Worsen definitions

verb

grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

See also: decline

verb

make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

See also: aggravate exacerbate exasperate