different between worsen vs diminute

English

Etymology

worse +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??(r)s?n/

  Rhymes: -??(r)s?n

Verb

worsen (third-person singular simple present worsens, present participle worsening, simple past and past participle worsened)

1. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.

   The global warming has worsened the weather.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened.

2. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.

   The weather has worsened.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.

Synonyms

• (to make worse): aggravate, exacerbate; See also Thesaurus:aggravate
• (to become worse): decline, deteriorate; See also Thesaurus:worsen
• (to get the better of): better, defeat, overpower

Antonyms

• improve
• ameliorate

Translations

Anagrams

• Rewson, owners, resown, rowens, snower, sworne

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?m?nju?t/, /?d?m?nu?t/

Adjective

diminute (comparative more diminute, superlative most diminute)

1. (obsolete) small; diminutive
   • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year

     prices made diminute and lessened to such proportions and abatements as that fault should make

Anagrams

• mutinied

Latin

Participle

d?min?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?min?tus

References

• diminute in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)