Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
adv
comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly · Less skillfully. · More severely or seriously. · Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
noun
Loss; disadvantage; defeat · That which is worse; something less good.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorycomparative form of bad: more bad
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
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