Timeline for Single word to describe "make something worse"
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| Jul 7, 2014 at 22:40 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Where are those citations from? Please tell us the name of where you got those from, and if applicable, also a link. If you are going copy out text verbatim, our Help Center says that you must name where you got the original from, and this post fails to do that. Please see the question on meta entitled “What to do about missing source attributions: Copying, Linking, Attributions, and Plagiarism for discussion on this. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 18:45 | comment | added | bangoker | +1 for worsen. Sometimes its better to keep it plain. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 10:31 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @martinf -- all the more reason to use it properly and often, thereby reminding people of its actual meaning. I think it was Philip Roth who said it wasn't until he was in college that he learned that "aggravate" wasn't a Yiddish word. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | Martin F | @terdon - Your source mostly confirms my assertion! | |
| May 8, 2014 at 15:58 | comment | added | terdon | @martinf nothing "incorrect" about it. The word simply has both meanings. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | Martin F | It might be good to point out that "aggravate" is (most?) often used incorrectly for "annoy". | |
| May 7, 2014 at 17:46 | comment | added | ghoppe | Both are very fine options. However, if it were me I would simply write "hitting the machine with a hammer made the problem worse." | |
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| May 7, 2014 at 15:03 | history | answered | Yellrag | CC BY-SA 3.0 |