The worse for wear

Definition

worse /wɜ:s/ adj (comparative of BAD 1 ) ၁။ ~ (than sth/ doing sth) ပို၍ ဆိုးေသာ။ The weather got worse during the day. ❍ The interview was far/ much worse than he had expected. ❍ prevent an even worse tragedy ❍ The economic crisis is getting worse and worse. ❍ Don't tell her that — you'll only make things/ matters worse. Compare WORST ၂။ (က်န္းမာေရး) ပိုဆိုးလာ[ေသာ]။ If he gets any worse, we must phone for the doctor. Compare BETTER adj adv ၁။ သာ၍ဆိုးလ်က္။ ပိုညံ့လ်က္။ I'm not a very good player, but Graham plays worse than I do. Compare WORST adv ၂။ (ယခင္ကထက္) ပို၍၊ လြန္ကဲစြာ။ It's raining worse than ever. n [U] ျပႆနာေတြ။ သတင္းဆိုးေတြ။ I'm afraid there is worse to come. ❏ be none the worse (for sth) [ IDM ] ဘာအႏၲရာယ္မွ် မျဖစ္ဘူး။ The children were none the worse for their adventure. ❏ be the worse for drink [ IDM ] အရက္မူးသည္။ ❏ be worse off [ IDM ] ပို၍ဆိုးဝါးသည္။ The increase in taxes means that we'll be £30 a month worse off. အခြန္တိုးတယ္ဆိုေတာ့ တို႔တစ္လ ေပါင္သံုးဆယ္ ထိမွာေပါ့။ ❍ I've only broken my arm; other patients are far worse off than me. ❏ can/ could do worse than do sth [ IDM ] ဒါထက္ ဆိုးစရာပဲရိွတယ္။ If you want a safe investment, you could do a lot worse than put your money in a building society. ❏ come off worse/ worst [ IDM ] ႐ံႈးသည္။ အေရးနိမ့္သည္။ ပို၍ခံစားရသည္။ ❏ go from bad to worse [ IDM ] ဆိုးသည္ထက္ဆိုးလာ သည္။ We were hoping for an improvement but things have gone from bad to worse. ❏ the worse for wear [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ေဟာင္းႏြမ္း စုတ္ျပတ္ေနၿပီ။ My old dictionary is looking a bit the worse for wear. ၂။ အရက္မူးသည္။ Bill came home from the office party considerably the worse for wear. ❏ worse luck! [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) (စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ ျဖစ္မိေၾကာင္း ၫႊန္းေသာ စကား)။ ဆိုးလိုက္တဲ့ ကံ။ ငါ့ႏွယ္ေနာ္။ I shall have to miss the party, worse luck! ❏ worsen /'wɜ:sn/ v ပိုမိုဆိုးဝါးလာသည္။ a steadily worsening economic situation ❍ The patient's condition worsened during the night. ❍ The drought has worsened their chances of survival.

Examples

1. Some said they’d never seen a worse film.
2. [get worse] : Our performance got worse as the game went on.
3. [worse than] : The injury looked a lot worse than it really was.
4. [something is made worse by something] : The situation was made worse by the rapid growth in population.
5. [worse and worse] : The company’s financial problems are getting worse and worse.
6. She’s feeling much worse today.