усугублять – English translation

double; ingeminate; reduplicate; heighten; further aggravate; make (even worse); add insult to injury; increase; redouble; aggravate; deepen; enhance; worsen; compound (трудности); exacerbate (bigmaxus); extol (Pippy-Longstocking); intensify; add to (Ремедиос_П); accentuate; compound by (bigmaxus); confound (According to 'The free dictionary'; To make (something bad) worse. E.g., Do not confound the problem by losing your temper

thefreedictionary.com Min$draV); contribute (в негативном контексте Баян); make worse (Stas-Soleil); expand (Nrml Kss); perpetuate (Ремедиос_П); exasperate (положение и т.п. Abysslooker)

heighten (ситуацию, действие Val_Ships)

stoke (Abysslooker)

double down (Баян)

make more complicated (Ремедиос_П)

jeopardize (ситуацию 4uzhoj)

redouble; worsen; gather pace (As the property market and economic downturn gathers pace,... alex); fester (о проблеме Lemuel Gulliver); aggravate; become more intense; increase; intensify; deteriorate; get worse (Andrey Truhachev); be compounded (Aslandado); exacerbate (oldvinyl); be amplified (Alex_Odeychuk); be further heightened; be increased (by ... – чем-л. Alex_Odeychuk)

deepen (the crisis deepened Val_Ships)

worsening (Alex_Odeychuk)

усугублять: 102 phrases in 18 subjects

Business	1
Diplomacy	1
Economy	6
General	21
Government, administration and public services	1
Idiomatic	3
Law	1
Makarov	42
Mass media	11
Mathematics	1
Medical	1
Military	1
Politics	2
Production	6
Psychology	1
Public relations	1
Real estate	1
Scientific	1