worsening是什么意思？

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

But it's also important to recognize that the pressure to divorce may be health-related and that sick ex-wives may need additional care and services to prevent worsening health and increased health costs.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

So there may actually be a worsening of credit availability to small-and medium-sized businesses in the next year or so.