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retrogradedverbpast tense of retrograde to become worse or of less valuethe Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded atrophied, crumbled, decayed, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, devolved, ebbed, regressed, rotted, sank(or sunk), worsened abated, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, receded, wanedbroke down, corrupted, decomposed, degraded, dilapidated, disintegrated, moldered, putrefiedsoured, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)lessened, lowered, reduceddebilitated, undermineddrooped, failed, fell, flagged, lagged, languished, ran down, sagged, slipped, wasted (away), weakened, wilted went to pot, went to seed(or ran to seed) ameliorated, improved, meliorated bettered, upgradedenhanced, enriched, fortified, heightened, intensified, strengthenedadvanced, developed, marched, proceeded, progressed |