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deterioratingverbpresent participle of deteriorate to become worse or of less valuethe garden slowly deteriorated after months of neglect atrophying, crumbling, decaying, declining, degenerating, descending, devolving, ebbing, regressing, retrograding, rotting, sinking, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing to lower in character, dignity, or qualitychildish name-calling that merely deteriorates what should be a serious discussion on an important issue abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, debasing, debauching, degrading, demeaning, demoralizing, depraving, lessening, perverting, poisoning, profaning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting |