BBC: Myanmar mourns earthquake dead-2

Let's have another headline. This is a from The Financial Times in the UK. Earthquake Eeepens Crisis in Myanmar as aid Effort intensifies. 

That headline again from the Financial Times. Earthquake deepens crisis in Myanmar as aid effort intensifies. 

So this headline talks about the impact of the earthquake and the aid effort or help, which is intensifying, and that means getting bigger or stronger. 

But we're interested in this phrase, deepens crisis. 

So let's look first at crisis. A crisis is an extremely bad or dangerous situation. 

Andd deepens. This comes from the adjective deep, which means a long way to the bottom. You might have a deep lake, for example. 

Now if something deepens, it tends to mean, it gets bigger. So if a crisis deepens, it means a bad situation gets even worse. 

In the headline, it says, earthquake deepens crisis. This means the earthquake makes a situation that is already very bad worse. Remember that Myanmar was already affected by a Civil war and food shortages, and now the earthquake has made life even harder for people. 

We commonly hear crisis and deepens together in news stories that are reporting on challenging situations as they get more serious. 

We've had deepen crisis make a bad situation worse. 

For example, the CEO quitting only deepened the crisis at the company.

That's it for this episode of learning English from the news. We'll be back next week with another news story.