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