fan the flames
disimprovement
do more harm than good
exacerbatingly
kick someone when they are down
impair
compound
disimprove
make one's bed and lie in it
exacerbate
worsening
twist the knife
make matters worse
worsen
pejorate
suffer
kick a dog when it's down
drop someone in it
up the ante
misalter
aggravate
aggravative
frayedness
confound
fall
disconcert
begin at the wrong end
add fuel to the fire
agonistic
pressure cooker
direfulness
rub salt in someone's wounds
rebound
misreform
sap
doghouse
compensate
take a turn for the worse
pay
rile up
go to pieces
lean into
compare and despair
strainedness
troubling
crash
Christing
confronting
Achilles heel
force someone's back to the wall
tumultuousness
crush
stressfully
add insult to injury
take on water
caseharden
Indian wrestle
upend
weigh on
snarl
decline
exacerbating
reap the whirlwind
woefulness
out of the frying pan, into the fire
catch a cold
direness
take one's lumps
gun for
fall apart
deformation
angstiness
distortion
fish in troubled waters
aggravatable
distressingness
toughening
tatter
cross
hopeless
dig oneself in a hole
have one foot on a banana peel
take on the chin
direly
impairment
upsettingness
dismalize
forset
stress out
damage
reach
harm
rescue
exacerbatory
heave
top it off
hit someone for six
frustrating

English words for 'To intensify or worsen an already difficult situation.'

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