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Answer by SovereignSun for Is there an antonym for "improve on"?

This is very tricky. We actually have "improve on" as "make better than before" which is actually in meaning equal to "make something better than the current thing taking the current thing as a...

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Answer by Shadowtail for Is there an antonym for "improve on"?

Destroy or ruin might be somewhat antonyms. (Remember that antonyms are almost never direct opposites of the word unless they are exactly related.) For example:"I want to destroy my GPA.""I want to...

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Is there an antonym for "improve on"?

I can't find one in the dictionary.There is a word "disimprove" so "disimprove on" is a catachresis waiting to happen. I think it would be easily understood. But I'm looking for an existing word.The...

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