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Related Words:
prostitution
collapse
offering sexual intercourse for pay
related words >
Cosa Nostra
,
Mafia
,
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
adulteration
,
befouling
,
befoulment
,
black market
,
bootlegging
,
contamination
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
corruption
,
debasement
,
defalcation
,
defilement
,
degradation
,
desecration
,
devaluation
,
diversion
,
embezzlement
,
envenoming
,
festering
,
fouling
,
gambling
,
gray market
,
harlotry
,
illegal commerce
,
illegal operations
,
illegitimate business
,
illicit business
,
infection
,
loan-sharking
,
lowering
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
misconduct
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
moonshining
,
narcotics traffic
,
organized crime
,
pandering
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pimping
,
poisoning
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
profanation
,
protection racket
,
racket
,
shady dealings
,
solicitation
,
soliciting
,
streetwalking
,
suppuration
,
the rackets
,
the syndicate
,
traffic in women
,
usury
,
vice
,
violation
,
vitiation
,
white slavery
,
whoredom
,
whoremastery
,
whoremonging
undoing
collapse
an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)
related words >
Waterloo
,
abasement
,
affliction
,
annulment
,
bane
,
beating
,
blight
,
bloodbath
,
blue ruin
,
breakup
,
cancellation
,
carnage
,
collapse
,
conquering
,
conquest
,
consumption
,
counterbalancing
,
crash
,
curse
,
damnation
,
deathblow
,
debacle
,
debasement
,
decimation
,
defeat
,
degradation
,
depredation
,
deprivation
,
descent
,
desolation
,
despoilment
,
despoliation
,
destroyer
,
destruction
,
devastation
,
disassembly
,
disgrace
,
disintegration
,
dismantlement
,
dismemberment
,
disorganization
,
disruption
,
dissolution
,
downfall
,
drubbing
,
failure
,
fall
,
frustration
,
havoc
,
hecatomb
,
hiding
,
holocaust
,
humiliation
,
invalidation
,
lambasting
,
lathering
,
licking
,
mastery
,
misfortune
,
mortification
,
neutralization
,
nullification
,
offsetting
,
overcoming
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
perdition
,
quietus
,
ravage
,
ruin
,
ruination
,
shambles
,
shame
,
slaughter
,
smash
,
spoliation
,
stripping
,
subdual
,
subduing
,
subjugation
,
thrashing
,
thwarting
,
trimming
,
trouble
,
trouncing
,
vandalism
,
vanquishment
,
vitiation
,
voiding
,
waste
,
whipping
,
wrack
,
wrack and ruin
,
wreck
erosion
collapse
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
a gradual decline of something; "after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors"
condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
related words >
ablation
,
abrading
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
abstraction
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
breakup
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
consumption
,
corroding
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
decay
,
decomposition
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deduction
,
degradation
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
detrition
,
digestion
,
dilapidation
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
eating up
,
erasure
,
evaporation
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fraying
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
impoverishment
,
incoherence
,
ingestion
,
leakage
,
limation
,
loss
,
polishing
,
purification
,
rasping
,
ravages of time
,
refinement
,
removal
,
resolution
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
shrinkage
,
smoothing
,
spending
,
squandering
,
subduction
,
sublation
,
subtraction
,
taking away
,
use
,
using
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
weathering
scandal
collapse
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
a disgraceful event
related words >
abomination
,
abuse
,
asperse
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
bad
,
badge of infamy
,
belittlement
,
bitchiness
,
black mark
,
black spot
,
blemish
,
burning shame
,
byword
,
byword of reproach
,
calumniate
,
calumniation
,
calumny
,
cattiness
,
character assassination
,
damage
,
defamation
,
defame
,
defilement
,
degradation
,
denigrate
,
depreciation
,
desecration
,
dirt
,
dirty shame
,
discredit
,
disgrace
,
dishonor
,
disparagement
,
disrepute
,
embarrassment
,
error
,
evil
,
gossip column
,
humiliation
,
ignominy
,
infamy
,
iniquity
,
innuendo
,
insinuation
,
juicy morsel
,
knavery
,
libel
,
low-down dirty shame
,
malicious gossip
,
obliquity
,
obloquy
,
outrage
,
peccancy
,
pity
,
profanation
,
reproach
,
reprobacy
,
sacrilege
,
scandalize
,
scandalmongering
,
shame
,
sin
,
slander
,
slur
,
smear
,
smirch
,
spot
,
stigma
,
taint
,
tale
,
terrible thing
,
tidbit
,
traducement
,
villainy
,
violation
,
whispering campaign
,
wrong
humiliation
collapse
depriving one of self-esteem
an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
related words >
abasement
,
affront
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
awkwardness
,
belittlement
,
breaking
,
brickbat
,
burning shame
,
byword
,
byword of reproach
,
comedown
,
conquering
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
crushing
,
cut
,
cut direct
,
debasement
,
deflation
,
degradation
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
despite
,
detraction
,
dirty shame
,
disconcertedness
,
discredit
,
disgrace
,
dishonor
,
disparagement
,
disregard
,
domestication
,
dump
,
embarrassment
,
enormity
,
flout
,
flouting
,
gentling
,
gibe
,
hangdog look
,
humbled pride
,
humbling
,
ignominy
,
indignity
,
injury
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
letdown
,
low-down dirty shame
,
mock
,
mockery
,
mortification
,
obloquy
,
offense
,
outrage
,
put-down
,
quelling
,
rebuff
,
reduction
,
reproach
,
repulse
,
scandal
,
scoff
,
scurrility
,
self-abasement
,
self-abnegation
,
self-diminishment
,
setdown
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shaming
,
slight
,
sneer
,
sniff
,
snort
,
snub
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
subdual
,
suppression
,
taming
,
taunt
,
the cold shoulder
,
the go-by
,
treading down
,
uncomplimentary remark
diminution
collapse
the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
related words >
abatement
,
abridgment
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetizing
,
appeasement
,
assuagement
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
blunting
,
calming
,
concavity
,
contraction
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
dampening
,
damping
,
de-escalation
,
deadening
,
debasement
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
demulsion
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
derogation
,
descent
,
detraction
,
detrusion
,
diminishment
,
dip
,
disparagement
,
ducking
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dying
,
dying off
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fade-out
,
falling-off
,
hauling down
,
hollowness
,
hushing
,
impairment
,
languishment
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lowering
,
lulling
,
miniaturization
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
numbing
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
relief
,
remedy
,
remission
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
sagging
,
salving
,
scaling down
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
simplicity
,
sinking
,
slackening
,
softening
,
soothing
,
subduement
,
submergence
,
subtraction
,
tempering
,
thrusting under
,
tranquilization
,
truncation
,
weakening
crumbling
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
beating
,
breakup
,
brecciation
,
coming apart
,
comminution
,
corrosion
,
cracking
,
crushing
,
decadent
,
decay
,
declining
,
decomposition
,
decrepit
,
degenerate
,
degradation
,
deteriorating
,
detrition
,
dilapidated
,
dilapidation
,
disintegrating
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissolution
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dusty
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
erosion
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmentation
,
fragmenting
,
fusty
,
going to pieces
,
gone to seed
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grinding
,
incoherence
,
infirm
,
languishing
,
levigation
,
marcescent
,
mashing
,
mildewed
,
moldering
,
moldy
,
moss-grown
,
moth-eaten
,
musty
,
pining
,
poor
,
poorish
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
ravages of time
,
regressive
,
resolution
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
rotten
,
rotten at
,
ruined
,
ruinous
,
rusty
,
shredding
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smashing
,
stale
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
time-scarred
,
timeworn
,
trituration
,
unfirm
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsturdy
,
unsubstantial
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worn
,
worsening
involution
collapse
the action of enfolding something
a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
related words >
absorption
,
addition
,
ambages
,
anfractuosity
,
approximation
,
circuitousness
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
circumvolution
,
comedown
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
convolution
,
crabbedness
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
differentiation
,
division
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
embarrassment
,
engagement
,
enmeshment
,
entanglement
,
equation
,
evolution
,
extrapolation
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
flexuosity
,
flexuousness
,
implication
,
inclusion
,
integration
,
interpolation
,
intorsion
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
inversion
,
involvement
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
meander
,
meandering
,
multiplication
,
notation
,
perplexity
,
practice
,
proportion
,
ramification
,
reduction
,
regression
,
relation
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
rivulation
,
sinuation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
slinkiness
,
slippage
,
slump
,
snakiness
,
subtlety
,
subtraction
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
torsion
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
transformation
,
turning
,
twisting
,
undulation
,
wane
,
wave
,
waving
,
winding
downfall
collapse
failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
related words >
Waterloo
,
atrophy
,
bane
,
beating
,
bouleversement
,
brash
,
breakdown
,
burst of rain
,
cascade
,
cataract
,
chute
,
cloudburst
,
collapse
,
comedown
,
conquering
,
conquest
,
convulsion
,
crash
,
cropper
,
deathblow
,
debacle
,
decadence
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
defeat
,
deflation
,
defluxion
,
degeneracy
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
deluge
,
descending
,
descension
,
descent
,
destroyer
,
destruction
,
devolution
,
discomfiture
,
down
,
downbend
,
downcome
,
downcurve
,
downflow
,
downgrade
,
downpour
,
downrush
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward trend
,
drencher
,
drop
,
dropping
,
drubbing
,
failure
,
fall
,
falling
,
flood
,
gravitation
,
gushing rain
,
headache
,
heavy rain
,
hiding
,
inclination
,
lambasting
,
lathering
,
licking
,
mastery
,
nose dive
,
overcoming
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
plash
,
plummeting
,
pounce
,
pour
,
pratfall
,
problem
,
prostration
,
quietus
,
rainburst
,
rainspout
,
rainstorm
,
rapids
,
ruin
,
ruination
,
sabotage
,
scud
,
smash
,
soaker
,
soaking rain
,
spate
,
spout
,
stoop
,
stumble
,
subdual
,
subduing
,
subjugation
,
subversion
,
swoop
,
tailspin
,
thrashing
,
torrent of rain
,
trimming
,
trouble
,
trouncing
,
tumble
,
undoing
,
upheaval
,
upset
,
vanquishment
,
waterfall
,
waterspout
,
whipping
concavity
collapse
the property possessed by a concave shape
related words >
aduncity
,
alveolation
,
alveolus
,
antrum
,
aquilinity
,
arching
,
arcuation
,
armpit
,
basin
,
boss
,
bowl
,
bump
,
cavity
,
circularity
,
colophon
,
concameration
,
concave
,
convexity
,
convolution
,
crater
,
crookedness
,
crypt
,
cup
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
dactylogram
,
dactylograph
,
de-escalation
,
debasement
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
dent
,
depression
,
descent
,
detrusion
,
diminution
,
dint
,
dip
,
ducking
,
embossment
,
excrescence
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fingerprint
,
fold
,
follicle
,
footmark
,
footprint
,
footstep
,
fossil footprint
,
funnel chest
,
hauling down
,
hole
,
hollow
,
hollow shell
,
hollowness
,
hookedness
,
ichnite
,
ichnolite
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
indent
,
indentation
,
indention
,
lacuna
,
lowering
,
lump
,
pad
,
paw print
,
pawmark
,
pimple
,
pit
,
pocket
,
print
,
pug
,
pugmark
,
punch bowl
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
reduction
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
sag
,
scoop
,
seal
,
shell
,
sigil
,
signet
,
sink
,
sinkage
,
sinkhole
,
sinking
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
sinus
,
socket
,
stamp
,
step
,
stud
,
submergence
,
thrusting under
,
thumbmark
,
thumbprint
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trough
,
vaulting
,
vestige
,
vug
lowness
collapse
a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates"
the condition of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling"
related words >
Schmerz
,
Slough of Despond
,
abjectness
,
abominableness
,
atrociousness
,
baseness
,
bassness
,
beggarliness
,
blank despondency
,
brevity
,
briefness
,
commonness
,
commonplaceness
,
compactness
,
compendiousness
,
conciseness
,
contemptibility
,
contemptibleness
,
crumminess
,
curtness
,
death wish
,
debasement
,
decrescendo
,
deepness
,
degradation
,
dejectedness
,
dejection
,
depravity
,
depression
,
despair
,
despicableness
,
despondency
,
despondentness
,
dimness
,
discouragement
,
disheartenment
,
dispiritedness
,
down trip
,
downcastness
,
downer
,
downheartedness
,
drooping spirits
,
enormity
,
execrableness
,
faintness
,
feebleness
,
flatness
,
foulness
,
fullness
,
fulsomeness
,
gentleness
,
grossness
,
heartlessness
,
heinousness
,
hollowness
,
homeliness
,
hopelessness
,
ignobility
,
indistinctness
,
instantaneousness
,
littleness
,
low spirits
,
lowness of spirit
,
malaise
,
meanness
,
mellowness
,
miserableness
,
monstrousness
,
nefariousness
,
obnoxiousness
,
odiousness
,
oppression
,
ordinariness
,
paltriness
,
pessimism
,
pettiness
,
plangency
,
plebeianism
,
pokiness
,
poorness
,
rankness
,
resonance
,
richness
,
scabbiness
,
scrubbiness
,
scruffiness
,
scumminess
,
scurviness
,
self-destructive urge
,
shabbiness
,
shoddiness
,
short time
,
shortness
,
sinking heart
,
smallness
,
softness
,
sonority
,
sonorousness
,
spiritlessness
,
squalor
,
subaudibility
,
subduedness
,
succinctness
,
suicidal despair
,
summariness
,
taedium vitae
,
transience
,
unclearness
,
vibrancy
,
vileness
,
weakness
,
weariness of life
,
wretchedness
downturn
collapse
a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn"
related words >
boom
,
bottoming out
,
business cycle
,
business fluctuations
,
bust
,
cascade
,
catabasis
,
cataract
,
chute
,
collapse
,
comedown
,
cooling off
,
crash
,
crisis
,
debacle
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
decrescendo
,
defluxion
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
derogation
,
descending
,
descension
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
diminuendo
,
dip
,
dive
,
down
,
downbend
,
downcome
,
downcurve
,
downfall
,
downflow
,
downgrade
,
downpour
,
downrush
,
downslide
,
downswing
,
downtrend
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dropping
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
ebb
,
economic cycle
,
economic expansion
,
economic growth
,
effeteness
,
expanding economy
,
expansion
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling
,
falling-off
,
falloff
,
gravitation
,
growth
,
high growth rate
,
inclination
,
involution
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
low
,
market expansion
,
peak
,
peaking
,
plummeting
,
plunge
,
pounce
,
prosperity
,
rapids
,
recession
,
recovery
,
regression
,
remission
,
retreat
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
sag
,
slip
,
slippage
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
stoop
,
subsidence
,
swoop
,
upturn
,
wane
,
waterfall
atomization
collapse
annihilation by reducing something to atoms
separating something into fine particles
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
aeration
,
aerification
,
alpha decay
,
alteration
,
analysis
,
anatomization
,
atom-chipping
,
atom-smashing
,
atomic disintegration
,
atomic reaction
,
attrition
,
beating
,
beta decay
,
bombardment
,
breakup
,
brecciation
,
breeding
,
bullet
,
chain reaction
,
change
,
circumstantiation
,
cleavage
,
comminution
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
decay
,
decomposition
,
degradation
,
demarcation
,
desynonymization
,
detrition
,
differencing
,
differentiation
,
dilapidation
,
discrimination
,
disequalization
,
disintegration
,
disintegration series
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissociation
,
dissolution
,
distillation
,
distinction
,
distinguishment
,
diversification
,
division
,
erosion
,
etherealization
,
etherification
,
evaporation
,
exchange reaction
,
exhalation
,
fission
,
fission reaction
,
fluidization
,
fractionation
,
fragmentation
,
fumigation
,
gamma decay
,
gasification
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grinding
,
incoherence
,
individualization
,
individuation
,
ionization
,
itemization
,
levigation
,
mashing
,
modification
,
neutron reaction
,
nonreversible reaction
,
nuclear fission
,
nucleization
,
particularization
,
personalization
,
photodisintegration
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
proton gun
,
proton reaction
,
ravages of time
,
resolution
,
reversible reaction
,
segregation
,
separation
,
severalization
,
severance
,
shredding
,
smashing
,
smoking
,
specialization
,
specification
,
splitting the atom
,
steaming
,
stimulation
,
sublimation
,
target
,
thermonuclear reaction
,
trituration
,
vaporization
,
variation
,
volatilization
,
wear
,
wear and tear
pettiness
collapse
lack of generosity in trifling matters
the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
narrowness of mind or ideas or views
related words >
abjectness
,
abominableness
,
atrociousness
,
authoritarianism
,
baseness
,
beggarliness
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
closed mind
,
contemptibility
,
contemptibleness
,
cramped ideas
,
crumminess
,
daintiness
,
debasement
,
deficiency
,
degradation
,
delicacy
,
depravity
,
despicableness
,
diminutiveness
,
enormity
,
execrableness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
failure
,
fanaticism
,
fewness
,
foulness
,
fulsomeness
,
grossness
,
heinousness
,
hideboundness
,
illiberality
,
immateriality
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
incompetence
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
irrelevance
,
little-mindedness
,
littleness
,
low priority
,
lowness
,
maladroitness
,
marginality
,
meagerness
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
minginess
,
minuteness
,
miserableness
,
moderateness
,
monstrousness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
nefariousness
,
negligibility
,
niggardliness
,
obnoxiousness
,
odiousness
,
odium theologicum
,
paltriness
,
parochialism
,
petty mind
,
picayune
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poorness
,
provincialism
,
puniness
,
purblindness
,
rankness
,
scabbiness
,
scantiness
,
scrubbiness
,
scruffiness
,
scumminess
,
scurviness
,
secondariness
,
shabbiness
,
shoddiness
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
squalor
,
stinginess
,
straitlacedness
,
stuffiness
,
subnormality
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
uncatholicity
,
ungenerousness
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unmagnanimousness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
unskillfulness
,
vileness
,
vulgarity
,
wretchedness
retrogression
collapse
related words >
Brownian movement
,
about-face
,
advance
,
angular motion
,
ascending
,
ascent
,
axial motion
,
backflowing
,
backing
,
backset
,
backsliding
,
backward motion
,
backward step
,
career
,
climbing
,
comedown
,
course
,
current
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descending
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
disenchantment
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward motion
,
downward trend
,
drift
,
driftage
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
flight
,
flip-flop
,
flow
,
flux
,
forward motion
,
involution
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
mounting
,
oblique motion
,
ongoing
,
onrush
,
passage
,
plunging
,
progress
,
radial motion
,
random motion
,
reaction
,
recession
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
reclamation
,
reconversion
,
reentry
,
reflowing
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
regress
,
regression
,
rehabilitation
,
reinstatement
,
relapse
,
restitution
,
restoration
,
retroaction
,
retrocession
,
retroflexion
,
retrogradation
,
retroversion
,
retrusion
,
return
,
returning
,
reversal
,
reverse
,
reversion
,
reverting
,
revulsion
,
rising
,
rollback
,
run
,
rush
,
set
,
setback
,
sideward motion
,
sinking
,
slippage
,
slipping back
,
slump
,
soaring
,
sternway
,
stream
,
subsiding
,
throwback
,
traject
,
trajet
,
trend
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upward motion
,
wane
littleness
collapse
related words >
abjectness
,
abominableness
,
atrociousness
,
authoritarianism
,
baseness
,
beggarliness
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
brevity
,
briefness
,
closed mind
,
compactness
,
compendiousness
,
conciseness
,
contemptibility
,
contemptibleness
,
cramped ideas
,
crumminess
,
curtness
,
daintiness
,
debasement
,
deficiency
,
degradation
,
delicacy
,
depravity
,
despicableness
,
diminutiveness
,
enormity
,
execrableness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
failure
,
fanaticism
,
fewness
,
foulness
,
fulsomeness
,
grossness
,
heinousness
,
hideboundness
,
illiberality
,
immateriality
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
incompetence
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insignificance
,
instantaneousness
,
insufficiency
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
irrelevance
,
little-mindedness
,
low priority
,
lowness
,
maladroitness
,
marginality
,
meagerness
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
minginess
,
minuteness
,
miserableness
,
moderateness
,
monstrousness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
nefariousness
,
negligibility
,
niggardliness
,
obnoxiousness
,
odiousness
,
odium theologicum
,
paltriness
,
parochialism
,
pettiness
,
petty mind
,
picayune
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poorness
,
provincialism
,
puniness
,
purblindness
,
rankness
,
scabbiness
,
scantiness
,
scrubbiness
,
scruffiness
,
scumminess
,
scurviness
,
secondariness
,
shabbiness
,
shoddiness
,
short time
,
shortness
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
squalor
,
stinginess
,
straitlacedness
,
stuffiness
,
subnormality
,
succinctness
,
summariness
,
tininess
,
transience
,
triviality
,
uncatholicity
,
ungenerousness
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unmagnanimousness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
unskillfulness
,
vileness
,
vulgarity
,
wretchedness
chicanery
collapse
related words >
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
bag of tricks
,
baseness
,
bickering
,
blind
,
bluff
,
boggling
,
bosey
,
captiousness
,
catch
,
caviling
,
cheating
,
chicane
,
chouse
,
collusion
,
connivance
,
connivery
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
coup
,
covin
,
craft
,
curve
,
curve-ball
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deception
,
degradation
,
design
,
device
,
deviousness
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
dishonesty
,
dodge
,
dodgery
,
dodging
,
double-dealing
,
duplicity
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
fast deal
,
feint
,
fencing
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
foul play
,
fraud
,
furtiveness
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
googly
,
grift
,
hairsplitting
,
hanky-panky
,
hedging
,
hocus-pocus
,
intrigue
,
joker
,
juggle
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
knavishness
,
little game
,
logic-chopping
,
machination
,
maneuver
,
moral turpitude
,
move
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
pass
,
pettifoggery
,
pettifogging
,
plot
,
ploy
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
racket
,
rascality
,
rascalry
,
red herring
,
reprobacy
,
roguery
,
roguishness
,
ruse
,
scampishness
,
scheme
,
scoundrelism
,
scurvy trick
,
sharp practice
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
skulduggery
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
sophistry
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
supercherie
,
surreptitiousness
,
tactic
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
trick
,
trickery
,
turpitude
,
underhand dealing
,
underhandedness
,
vileness
,
villainousness
,
villainy
,
wile
,
wily device
vice
collapse
a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
related words >
advocate
,
alter ego
,
alternate
,
amicus curiae
,
as proxy for
,
as representing
,
attorney
,
backup
,
backup man
,
bad habit
,
badness
,
besetting sin
,
blemish
,
champion
,
corruption
,
crime
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
debasement
,
debauchery
,
decay
,
defect
,
deficiency
,
degeneracy
,
degradation
,
depravity
,
deputy
,
discourtesy
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorderly conduct
,
disruption
,
disruptiveness
,
dummy
,
evil
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
executive officer
,
exponent
,
failing
,
failure
,
fault
,
feloniousness
,
figurehead
,
flaw
,
foible
,
for
,
frailty
,
frowned-upon behavior
,
hooliganism
,
horseplay
,
ill
,
immorality
,
imperfection
,
impropriety
,
in behalf of
,
in lieu of
,
in place of
,
in preference to
,
indecency
,
infirmity
,
iniquity
,
lawbreaking
,
licentiousness
,
lieutenant
,
locum
,
locum tenens
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misbehavior
,
misconduct
,
misdemeanor
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
moral flaw
,
naughtiness
,
nonsanctioned behavior
,
on behalf of
,
paranymph
,
perversion
,
pinch hitter
,
pleader
,
positive misprision
,
procurator
,
profligacy
,
proxy
,
replacing
,
representative
,
rot
,
roughhouse
,
rowdiness
,
rowdyism
,
ruffianism
,
second in command
,
secondary
,
shortcoming
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
squalor
,
stand-in
,
substitute
,
surrogate
,
thou scarlet sin
,
transgression
,
unchastity
,
understudy
,
utility man
,
vandalism
,
venality
,
venial sin
,
vicar
,
vicar general
,
vicegerent
,
viciousness
,
villainy
,
weak point
,
weak side
,
weakness
,
wickedness
,
wrong
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
degeneration
collapse
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
related words >
abandon
,
abandonment
,
abjection
,
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
apostasy
,
atrophy
,
betterment
,
break
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
closed loop
,
closed sequence
,
comedown
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
current-control circuit
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
defection
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degenerative change
,
degradation
,
demoralization
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depravity
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
devolution
,
difference
,
discontinuity
,
dissoluteness
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
downfall
,
downgrade
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
feedback
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
flip-flop circuit
,
gradual change
,
improvement
,
involution
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
moral pollution
,
moral turpitude
,
overthrow
,
perversion
,
positive feedback
,
process loop
,
profligacy
,
qualification
,
quality loop
,
radical change
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
redesign
,
reform
,
reformation
,
regression
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
reprobacy
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
reversal
,
reversed feedback
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
rottenness
,
shift
,
slippage
,
slump
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
total change
,
transition
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
turpitude
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
wane
,
worsening
disintegration
collapse
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abrasion
,
amiable weakness
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
beating
,
biodegradability
,
biodegradation
,
bloodbath
,
blue ruin
,
breakability
,
breakup
,
brecciation
,
brittleness
,
carnage
,
changeableness
,
collapse
,
comminution
,
consumption
,
corrosion
,
corruption
,
crack-up
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
daintiness
,
damnation
,
deactivation
,
decay
,
decimation
,
decomposition
,
degradability
,
degradation
,
delicacy
,
demobilization
,
depredation
,
derangement
,
desolation
,
despoilment
,
despoliation
,
destructibility
,
destruction
,
detachment
,
detrition
,
devastation
,
diaspora
,
diffusion
,
dilapidation
,
disarrangement
,
disarray
,
disarticulation
,
disbandment
,
discomfiture
,
discomposure
,
disconcertedness
,
disharmony
,
dishevelment
,
disjunction
,
dismissal
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorganization
,
dispersal
,
dispersion
,
disproportion
,
disruption
,
dissolution
,
disturbance
,
effeminacy
,
entropy
,
exfoliation
,
flimsiness
,
fragility
,
fragmentation
,
frailty
,
frangibility
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grinding
,
haphazardness
,
havoc
,
hecatomb
,
holocaust
,
human frailty
,
incoherence
,
indecisiveness
,
indiscriminateness
,
infirmity of will
,
inharmonious harmony
,
inherent vice
,
irregularity
,
irresolution
,
levigation
,
lightness
,
mashing
,
mildew
,
mold
,
moral weakness
,
most admired disorder
,
nonsymmetry
,
nonuniformity
,
oxidation
,
oxidization
,
parting
,
perdition
,
perturbation
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
randomness
,
ravage
,
release
,
resolution
,
revolution
,
ruin
,
ruination
,
rust
,
scaling
,
scattering
,
separation
,
shambles
,
shattering
,
shredding
,
slaughter
,
sleaziness
,
slightness
,
smashing
,
split-up
,
spoilage
,
spoliation
,
trituration
,
turbulence
,
undoing
,
unsubstantiality
,
unsymmetry
,
ununiformity
,
upset
,
vandalism
,
velleity
,
waste
,
wispiness
,
womanishness
,
wrack
,
wrack and ruin
,
wreck
regression
collapse
returning to a former state
the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
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Brownian movement
,
Freudian fixation
,
about-face
,
advance
,
angular motion
,
arrested development
,
ascending
,
ascent
,
atavism
,
axial motion
,
backflowing
,
backing
,
backset
,
backsliding
,
backward deviation
,
backward motion
,
career
,
climbing
,
comedown
,
course
,
current
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descending
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
disenchantment
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward motion
,
downward trend
,
drift
,
driftage
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling back
,
falling-off
,
father fixation
,
fixation
,
flight
,
flip-flop
,
flow
,
flux
,
forward motion
,
infantile fixation
,
involution
,
lapse
,
libido fixation
,
loss of tone
,
mother fixation
,
mounting
,
oblique motion
,
ongoing
,
onrush
,
parent fixation
,
passage
,
plunging
,
pregenital fixation
,
progress
,
radial motion
,
random motion
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
reclamation
,
reconversion
,
recrudescence
,
recurrence
,
reflowing
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
regress
,
rehabilitation
,
reinstatement
,
relapse
,
renewal
,
restitution
,
restoration
,
retreat to immaturity
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
retroversion
,
return
,
returning
,
reversal
,
reverse
,
reversion
,
reverting
,
revulsion
,
rising
,
run
,
rush
,
set
,
setback
,
sideward motion
,
sinking
,
slippage
,
slipping back
,
slump
,
soaring
,
sternway
,
stream
,
subsiding
,
throwback
,
traject
,
trajet
,
trend
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upward motion
,
wane
deterioration
collapse
process of changing to an inferior state
a symptom of reduced quality or strength
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about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
aggravation
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
amplification
,
annoyance
,
apostasy
,
atrophy
,
augmentation
,
betterment
,
break
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
comedown
,
constructive change
,
contentiousness
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
crumbling
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
decay
,
decaying
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
decomposition
,
deepening
,
defection
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
degradation
,
deliberate aggravation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
devaluation
,
deviation
,
devolution
,
difference
,
discontinuity
,
disintegration
,
dislocation
,
disruption
,
dissolution
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
downfall
,
downgrade
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dry rot
,
dying
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
effeteness
,
embittering
,
embitterment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exacerbation
,
exasperation
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
gradual change
,
heightening
,
impairment
,
improvement
,
increase
,
intensification
,
involution
,
irritation
,
lapse
,
lessening
,
loss of tone
,
magnification
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
overthrow
,
provocation
,
qualification
,
radical change
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
redesign
,
reform
,
reformation
,
regression
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
rotting
,
ruin
,
sharpening
,
shift
,
slippage
,
slump
,
souring
,
spoiling
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
total change
,
transition
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
wane
,
waning
,
worsening
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