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worse

3 adverb
     
worse3 [the comparative of badly]
in a more severe or serious way than before [↪ better]
worse than
By lunch time it was raining worse than ever.
[sentence adverb]
The business could become less profitable or, even worse, could close down.
Suppose Rose, or worse still, Peter had seen the photograph?
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