What does get worse mean?

get worse means "deteriorate in health".

What is another word for get worse?

Close synonyms include relapse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of get worse?

The recorded antonyms are get well.

Is get worse a common word?

get worse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Get worse — meaning, 1 synonym and examples

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
deteriorate in health
“he relapsed”
Synonymsrelapse
Antonymsget well
Broaderchange state

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What does get worse mean?: get worse means "deteriorate in health".
What is another word for get worse?: Close synonyms include relapse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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