disimprove
disimprovement
do more harm than good
misalter
kick someone when they are down
worsening
impair
run
confound
deterioratingly
take a turn for the worse
distortion
drop behind
ameliorate
deformation
exacerbate
pejorate
worsen
compound
aggravate
make heavy weather of
exasperate
exasperating
aggravating
exacerbating
fan the flames
fall away
rub salt in someone's wounds
retrogressive
retrograde
suffer
deteriorate
go backwards
misreform
freefall
kick a dog when it's down
go wrong
impairment
damage
harm
go from bad to worse
be thankful for small mercies
pessimism
tar baby
lose ground
deteriorationism
go to pieces
crash
outsuck
unblessing
cobra effect
add insult to injury
poison
out of the frying pan, into the fire
fall
downhill
turn
decline
exacerbatingly
make matters worse
wusser
outblunder
worsener
downslide
hit one hard
twist the knife
below average
woefulness
doomedness
go to shit
horrendousness
worse
dismalize
backward
reap the whirlwind
fail at life
ruin
pansy
fall into a trap
fight a losing battle
better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness
turn one's life around
misrectify
boof
pessimization
insalubrity
bum
rot in hell
insalubriousness
make a hash of

English words for 'To try to make something better but end up making it worse.'

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