Timeline for Single word to describe "make something worse"
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| Jul 7, 2014 at 22:44 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 7, 2014 at 19:53 | comment | added | Vality | @egrunin To me that actually reads as if it improved the situation. Impairing the problem would seem to me to be fixing the situation. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 18:50 | comment | added | Cruncher | @egrunin Agreed. This appears to be because "impair" seems to imply that it was fine before becoming impaired. Where the sentence calls for a word that means it was already bad, but it got worse. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 18:12 | comment | added | egrunin | Doesn't quite fit the question: "Hitting the machine with a hammer impaired the problem." is incorrect. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 16:25 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |