Worse /(?)/

Worse

a.
  1. Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
    Or worse, if men worse can devise.
    [She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.
    — Mark v. 26.
    Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
    — 2 Tim. iii. 13.
    There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse.
    — Rambler.
    “But I love him.” “Love him? Worse and worse.”

Worse

n.
  1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.

Worse

adv.
  1. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
    Now will we deal worse with thee than with them.
    — Gen. xix. 9.

Worse

v. t.
  1. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.
    Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.