| Main Entry: | deterioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay, degeneration |
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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 |
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betterment, building, construction, development, improvement |
| Main Entry: | deterioration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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
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| Concept: | Deterioration. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-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].
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Antonyms: |
improvement, restoration |
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| Main Entry: | atrophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wasting away, disintegration |
Synonyms: |
decline, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration, diminution, downfall, downgrade |
| Main Entry: | corrosion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disintegration |
Synonyms: |
decay, decomposition, degeneration, deterioration, erosion, oxidation, rust, wear |
| Notes: | abrasion is the process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction; corrosion is the act or process of destroying a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action; erosion is any of a group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
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advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | decay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking down, collapse |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, atrophy, blight, caries, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decadence, decline, decomposition, decrease, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, dying, extinction, fading, failing, gangrene, impairment, mortification, perishing, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rot, rotting, ruin, ruination, rust, senescence, spoilage, spoilation, wasting, wasting away, withering |
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development, flourish, germination, growth, improvement, ripening, strength, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
Synonyms: |
abatement, backsliding, comedown, cropper, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ebbing, enfeeblement, failing, failure, fall, falling off, flop, lapse, on the skids, pratfall, recession, relapse, senility, skids, slump, wane, waning, weakening, worsening |
Antonyms: |
betterment, improvement, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | degradation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity, shame |
Synonyms: |
abasement, debasement, decadence, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, demotion, derogation, deterioration, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, downgrading, evil, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, perversion, reduction |
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admiration, approval, elevation, honor, promotion, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
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atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, declension, degeneracy, degeneration, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, devolution, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, on the rocks, overthrow, rack and ruin, road to ruin, ruination, storm, the skids, undoing |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |