Learn English – Single word for making a situation doubly worse

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I'm thinking of a situation, wherein instead of helping someone's cause the helper rather doubly complicates the problem by giving an uneasy solution to it. For example, I'm assuming a person who doesn't know the meaning of the word sorry, he's tried to be helped with the synonym apologetic, of which he has no clue either, now his problem is twofold and his cause hasn't been helped but rather complicated.

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To exacerbate:

  • Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
  • The police intervention to calm the crowd unluckily exacerbated the situation and new episodes of violence took place.
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