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retrogradingverbpresent participle 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 atrophying, crumbling, decaying, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, devolving, ebbing, regressing, 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 |