empeorar
Spanish, verb/empeoˈɾaɾ/
empeorar is spelled E-M-P-E-O-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,558th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empeorar is a Spanish verb meaning “to worsen, to make worse, to exacerbate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que algo que ya era malo se vuelva aún peor”.
What does empeorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to worsen, to make worse, to exacerbate
- 2
to get worse, to deteriorate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que algo que ya era malo se vuelva aún peor.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of empeorar
- empeoro first-person present singular
- empeoré first-person preterite singular
- empeorado participle past
- empeorando gerund
- empeorada feminine participle past
- empeorados masculine participle past
- empeoradas feminine participle past
- empeoras indicative informal present
- empeorás indicative informal present
- empeora indicative present singular
- empeoramos first-person indicative plural
- empeoráis indicative plural present
- empeoran indicative plural present
- empeoraba first-person imperfect indicative
- empeorabas imperfect indicative second-person
- empeorábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- empeorabais imperfect indicative plural
- empeoraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empeorar?
- /empeoˈɾaɾ/
- [ẽm.pe.oˈɾaɾ]
- [ẽmpeoˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empeorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empeorar in Spanish?
empeorar appears 3.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).