worsening

Examples of worsen

worsen
Patients may have associated additional survival with an acceleration in worsening health, thereby causing the increasing concavity in utility for time observed.
On the other hand, such policies deprive taxpayers of money they owned, thereby worsening their situations.
Anything that worsens a population's economic well-being has the effect of increasing vulnerability to disease as well as to external pressures.
His condition had worsened since his last visit 1 week earlier.
Despite shortening the interval from trying to treatment, the outcome dramatically worsens.
The transmission of resistant bacteria from agricultural environments to humans may worsen such problems.
Factions within parties, alignments and realignments within parties, and self-serving coalitions further worsened matters.
This worsens performance by triggering garbage collection more often than would otherwise be required.
Monetarists had in mind an economy with serious credit market imperfections that monetary policy can mitigate or worsen.
Each change in scores for all modalities is clarified as improvement, no change or worsening condition.
Her pain increased accompanied by worsening nausea and vomiting.
With worsening economic conditions, the population's search for alternative social insurance turned toward participation in reconstituted kinship groups.
Moreover, by 1799 popular perception had inextricably linked the revolutionary regime to the worsening economic conditions in the province.
The authors effectively destroy myths from both the left and right about the crisis of the welfare state and the worsening social problems.
Clearly even low hookworm burdens would worsen their health.
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