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Youdenyesterday at 8:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen".

[0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verschlimmbessern


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b3ornyesterday at 9:01 PM

German here, this is the right definition, trying to improve something but ending up making it worse.

jjtheblunttoday at 3:23 AM

that's not disagreeing at all (american partial german, partial pole)