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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.

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  1. compar. 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.
  2. n. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  3. n. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
  4. a. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
  5. v. t. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.
  6. adj. (comparative of ‘bad’) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
  7. adj. changed for the worse in health or fitness
  8. n. something inferior in quality or condition or effect
  9. adv. (comparative of ‘ill’) in a less effective or successful or desirable manner
  10. n:100 n. something inferior in quality or condition or effect a. (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability a. changed for the worse in health or fitness r. (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner