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de-valuation

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Main Entry: deterioration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: decay, degeneration

Synonyms:

abasement, adulteration, atrophy, corrosion, crumbling, debasement, decadence, decaying, declension, declination, decline, decomposition, degradation, degringolade, depreciation, descent, devaluation, dilapidation, disintegration, dislocation, disrepair, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, fall, lapse, lessening, perversion, retrogression, rotting, ruin, slump, spoiling, vitiation, worsening

Antonyms:

betterment, building, construction, development, improvement
Main Entry: hyperinflation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extremely high, rising economic inflation

Synonyms:

devaluation, overextension, run-away inflation, wheelbarrow economics
Main Entry: reduction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: decline

Synonyms:

abatement, attrition, conquest, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutback, debasement, decrement, degradation, devaluation, diminution, discount, downgrading, markdown, minimization, overthrow, rebate, shrinkage, subdual, subjection, subjugation, subtraction

Antonyms:

enlargement, increase
Main Entry: devaluation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depreciation

Synonyms:

decline, decrease, devaluing, markdown, reduction, weakening, write-down
Main Entry: markdown
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depreciation

Synonyms:

accounting allowance, deflation, devaluation, fall, loss of value, reduction, slump, write-down
Related Words
Main Entry: deterioration
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
all the worse for, altered, altered for the worse, at a low ebb, battered, blighted, broken down, cankered, contabescent, crumbling, decadescent, decayed, deciduous, decrepid, decrepit, degenerate, deleterious, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, discolored, done for, effete, faded, far gone, fatigued, finewed, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, fracid, imperfect, in a bad way, injured, jizzicked, manky, marasmic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss, murled, nodding to its fall, on one's last legs, on the decline, on the wane, ossifragous, out of repair, out of tune, past cure, past work, reduced, reduced to a skeleton, retrograde, rotten, rusty, secondhand, seedy, shabby, shaken, spoiling, spotted, sprung, stale, tabescent, tabid, tainted, the worse for, the worse for wear, threadbare, timeworn, tottering, undermined, unimproved, used up, wasted, weather, wilted, withering, worm, worn out, worn to a shadow, worn to a thread, worn to rags, worn to the stump, worse
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Deterioration.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience

Synonyms:

-nouns
deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession; retrogradation; decrease., degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity; demoralization, retrogression; masochism., impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy., decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off; caducity, decrepitude., decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement (destruction). [more]; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub., wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra; jade, plug, rackabones [U.S.], skate [U.S.]; tackey, tacky [U.S.].
-verbs
be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated, have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane (decrease); ebb; retrograde, decline, droop; go down (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire., run to seed, go to seed, run to waste, swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate; break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf," rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die., [Render less good] deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice., pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious., embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate., injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage., wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp., blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy., damnify (aggrieve); do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate.
-adjectives
unimproved; deteriorated; altered, altered for the worse; injured; sprung; withering, spoiling; on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weatherbeaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U.S.]., decayed; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work (useless) [more]., at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall (destruction); tottering (dangerous); past cure (hopeless); fatigued; retrograde (retrogressive); deleterious.
-phrases
out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo; "what a falling off was there!" [Hamlet].

Antonyms:

improvement, restoration
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