deterioration
deterioration is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- abridge
- abridgment
- accident
- adversity
- again
- and
- anticlimax
- attenuate
- away
- awry
- back
- backsliding
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- bate
- birthmark
- blain
- blemish
- blobber
- blobber-lipped
- bloodshot
- blot
- blotch
- blow
- blubber
- blur
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- coarctation
- contract
- contraction
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is deterioration.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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