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Interesting Fact : Germany

There is a German word for making something worse while trying to fix it – Verschlimmbessern. The term verschlimmbessern is colloquial, and it is a fusion of verschlimmern (“to make something worse”) and verbessern (“to make something better”). Thus, verschlimmbessern means making something worse while intending to make it better.

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