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adj/wɜːs//wɔːs//wɝs/
  1. 1

    comparative form of bad: more badcomparativeform-of

    • Your exam results are worse than before.
adv/wɜːs//wɔːs//wɝs/
  1. 1

    comparative form of badly (adverb): more badlycomparativeform-of

    • The harder you try, the worse you do.
  2. 2

    Less skillfully.

    • He drives worse than anyone else I know.
  3. 3

    More severely or seriously.

    • The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.
  4. 4

    Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

    • Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
noun/wɜːs//wɔːs//wɝs/
  1. 1

    Loss; disadvantage; defeatobsolete

    • Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
  2. 2

    That which is worse; something less good.

    • Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
verb/wɜːs//wɔːs//wɝs/
  1. 1

    To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.obsoletetransitive

    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

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