Synonyms of the word deterioration


DETERIORATIONDECAY - DECLENSION - DECLINE - DIMINUTION - IMPAIRMENT - WORSENING

deterioration

  • n. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

decay

  • n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
  • n. A deterioration of condition.
  • v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
  • v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
  • v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

declension

  • n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
  • n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

decline

  • n. Downward movement, fall.
  • n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  • n. A weakening.
  • n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
  • v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
  • v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
  • v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
  • v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
  • v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  • v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

diminution

  • n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
  • n. The act or process of making diminutive.
  • n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

impairment

  • n. The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part…
  • n. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

worsening

  • v. present participle of worsen.
  • n. A worse situation; an aggravation.

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