empirer
- Examples
Loin de s’améliorer, le service empira. | Far from improving, water service actually worsened. |
La situation empira. | The situation worsened. |
Cette situation empira lors des sécheresses de 1983-84 et de 1992-93, lorsque les fonds accordés à beaucoup de programmes furent réaffectés pour secourir les victimes de la sécheresse. | This situation was made worse by the droughts of 1983-84 and 1992-93, when funds for many programmes were redirected to drought relief. |
Leur situation empira après la crise des Missiles d'octobre 1962 quand les autorités étasuniennes interdirent l'émigration pour accentuer les pressions sur la Révolution. | The situation for all of them deteriorated after the 1962 Missile Crisis; Washington closed the door to immigration in a move designed to step up the pressure on Cuba. |
je voilais mon visage, je ne parlais pas en public, mais à la fin, la situation empira lorsque ma vie fut menacée, et j'ai dû partir, retourner à Karachi, et nos actions se sont arrêtées. | I would put up the windows of the car, veil my face, not speak while I was in public, but eventually situations got worse when my life was threatened, and I had to leave, back to Karachi, and our actions stopped. |
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