Term: worsening: changing something with the result that it becomes worse
Candidate hypernym: change of state: the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics → 1
Candidate hypernym: intransitivity: the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb → 0
Candidate hypernym: inquest: an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death → 0
Candidate hypernym: flitch: salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork → 0
Candidate hypernym: personableness: the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive → 0
Candidate hypernym: weekday: any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) → 0
Candidate hypernym: nuclear reactor: (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements → 0
Candidate hypernym: lumbar plexus: a plexus of nerves formed by the ventral branches of the first four lumbar nerves → 0
Candidate hypernym: agastache: giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop → 0
Candidate hypernym: discipleship: the position of disciple → 0
Candidate hypernym: four-minute man: someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes → 0