WORSENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worsened mean? 

• WORSENED (adjective)
  The adjective WORSENED has 2 senses:

1. changed for the worse in health or fitness

2. made or become worse; impaired

  Familiarity information: WORSENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORSENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changed for the worse in health or fitness

Synonyms:

worse; worsened

Context example:

her cold is worse

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made or become worse; impaired

Context example:

the worsened diplomatic relations

Similar:

worse ((comparative of 'bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability)

 Context examples 

In contrast, R. mucosa isolates from people with atopic dermatitis either had no impact or worsened outcomes in the models.

(Bacteria therapy for eczema shows promise in NIH study, National Institutes of Health)

A question about whether an individual feels or felt their sense of taste has worsened.

(Feel Sense of Taste has Worsened, NCI Thesaurus)

In the study, researchers tested the effectiveness of HDIT/HCT in 25 volunteers with RRMS who had relapsed and experienced worsened neurological disability while taking standard medications.

(Stem cell transplants may halt progression of multiple sclerosis, NIH)

Consequences for the people living in one of the world’s most fragile and disaster-prone mountain regions will range from worsened air pollution to an increase in extreme weather events.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

They found that “turning on” MCH cells during retention worsened memory whereas turning the cells off improved memories.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

Signs of her disease had appeared in infancy and progressively worsened.

(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)

There was no evidence that the children’s hearing loss had worsened over this time, suggesting instead that a functional reorganisation was occurring.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

Compared with normal chow diet-fed mice, the high-fat diet mice showed worsened blood sugar, increased triglycerides, a type of fat (lipid) in the blood, and a substantial increase in the numbers of CD8+ T cells in the liver.

(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)