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comparative form of bad: more bad examples
comparative form of ill: more ill examples
comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly quotations examples
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
comparative form of ill: more ill. examples
Less skillfully. examples
More severely or seriously. examples
(sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse. examples
third-person singular simple present worses, present participle worsing, simple past and past participle worsed
(obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit. quotations
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat. quotations
Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Kings 4:12
That which is worse; something less good. examples