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deterioration

Roget category 659

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#659. Deterioration

noun

deterioration, debasementwane, ebbrecession etc. 287retrogradation etc. 283decrease etc. 36.
degeneracy, degeneration, degeneratenessdegradationdepravation, depravementdevolutiondepravity etc. 945demoralization, retrogressionmasochism.
impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scathperversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.
decline, declension, declination decadence, decadencyfalling off etc. v. — caducity, decrepitude.
decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tearcorrosion, erosionmoldiness, rottennessmoth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapsedisorganizationdelabrement etc. (destruction). 162aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceronvinefretter, vinegrub.
wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra [Lat.]jade, plug, rackabones [U.S.], skate [U.S.]tackey, tacky [U.S.].

verb

be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated etc.

adjective

have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall offwane etc. (decrease) 36ebbretrograde etc. 283, decline, droopgo down etc. (sink) 306go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worsejump out of the frying pan into the fire.
run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweallapse, be the worse forsphacelate: break, break downspring a leak, crack, startshrivel etc. (contract) 195fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go badgo to decay, fall into decay fall into the sear and yellow leaf," rust, crumble, shaketotter, totter to its fallperish etc. 162die etc. 360.
[Render less good] deteriorateweaken etc. 160put back, set backtaint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinatedebase, embasedenaturalize, denature, leavendeflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degradeulceratestain etc. (dirt) 653discoloralloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalizerender vicious etc. 945.
embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.
injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, wasteoverrunravagepillage etc. 791.
wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.
blight, rotcorrode, erodewear away, wear outgnaw, gnaw at the root ofsap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break updisorganize, dismantle, dismastdestroy etc. 162.
damnify etc. (aggrieve) 649do one's worstknock downdeal a blow toplay 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 amongdecimate.

adjective

unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658deteriorated etc. v. — altered, altered for the worseinjured etc. v. — sprungwithering, spoiling etc. v. — on the wane, on the declinetabiddegeneratemarescentworsethe worse for, all the worse forout of repair, out of tuneimperfect etc. 651the worse for wearbatteredweathered, weather-beatenstale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbareworn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to ragsreduced, reduced to a skeletonfar gonetacky [U.S.].
decayed etc. v. — moth-eaten, worm-eatenmildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-growndiscoloredeffete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainteddepraved etc. (vicious) 945decrepid, decrepitbroke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat [Fr.], out of action, broken downdone, done for, done upworn out, used up, finishedbeyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work etc. (useless) 645.
at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legsundermined, deciduousnodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162tottering etc. (dangerous) 665past cure etc. (hopeless) 859fatigued etc. 688retrograde etc. (retrogressive) 283deleterious etc. 649.

phrase

out of the frying pan into the fireagrescit medendo [Lat.]what a falling off was there! " [Hamlet].

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