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say it: WUR-suhnd
worsened is an adjective meaning "changed for the worse in health or fitness". It is pronounced /ˈwɝsənd/ — WUR-suhnd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
made or become worse; impaired
“troubled by the worsened economic conditions”
“the worsened diplomatic relations”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worsened come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.