| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| IMPAIR | Make worse | |
| WORSEN | Make worse | |
| INTENSIFY | Make worse | |
| AGGRAVATE | Make worse | |
| EXACERBATE | Make worse | |
| ESCALATORS | Moving stairways that make the situation worse? | |
| DISIMPROVE | To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. | |
| DEPRAVE | To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. | |
| ENGREGGE | To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. | |
| WORSE | To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v. | |
| DETERIORATE | To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. | |