BETTERING Antonyms

• changing for the worse

• process of changing to an inferior state

• changing something with the result that it becomes worse

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• become worse or disintegrate

• grow progressively worse

• the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence

• returning to a former state

• go back to a statistical means

• go back to a previous state

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• go back to bad behavior

• (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability

• changed for the worse in health or fitness

• something inferior in quality or condition or effect

• (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner

• grow worse

• make worse