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- aged,
- aging,
- ancient,
- anile,
- childish,
- childlike,
- crabbed,
- debilitated,
- declining,
- decrepit,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- doited,
- dotard,
- doting,
- dotty,
- enfeebled,
- failing,
- feeble,
- fogy,
- fogyish,
- forgetful,
- fossilized,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- infirm,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- old,
- old fart,
- old fogy,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- run to seed,
- rusty,
- senescent,
- shaky,
- shattered,
- shriveled,
- simple,
- stodgy,
- stricken in years,
- stuffy,
- timeworn,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- weak,
- withered,
- wizened
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- age-old,
- aged,
- ageing,
- ageless,
- aging,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- anile,
- antique,
- auld,
- dateless,
- declining,
- decrepit,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grey,
- grown old,
- hoar,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as history,
- old as time,
- old-fogyish,
- old-time,
- olden,
- over the hill,
- patriarchal,
- pensioners,
- senectuous,
- senescent,
- senile,
- superannuated,
- timeless,
- venerable,
- white,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old
- affectionate,
- aging,
- apish,
- asinine,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- childish,
- childlike,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dear,
- declining,
- decrepit,
- devoted,
- dizzy,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- doited,
- dumb,
- easily taken in,
- easy of belief,
- fading,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- flaky,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- getting on,
- goofy,
- growing old,
- gulled,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- inane,
- inclined to believe,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- kooky,
- loony,
- lovesome,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- moronic,
- nutty,
- overconfiding,
- overcredulous,
- overtrustful,
- overtrusting,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senescent,
- senile,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- silly,
- simple,
- sinking,
- stupid,
- superstitious,
- thoughtless,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- uncritical,
- undoubting,
- unskeptical,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- wacky,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wet,
- witless
- waning
collapse - a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent; "the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious"; "the waxing and waning of the moon"
- (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon" related words >
- aging,
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- coming apart,
- contractive,
- cool,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- disintegrating,
- doting,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- even-tenored,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- halcyon,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- isolated,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- moldering,
- on the wane,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- pining,
- placid,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- receding,
- reductive,
- regressive,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- secluded,
- senescent,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- smooth,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- undisturbed,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- aged
collapse
- people who are old collectively; "special arrangements were available for the aged"
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
- of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature well-aged cheeses"
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
- at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable); "aged rocks" related words >
- abiding,
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- age-long,
- age-old,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- developed,
- diuturnal,
- doddering,
- durable,
- elderly,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- full-blown,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- getting on,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grey,
- grown old,
- hardy,
- hoar,
- hoary,
- immutable,
- in full bloom,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- mature,
- matured,
- mellow,
- mellowed,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- olden,
- patriarchal,
- pensioned off,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- retired,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- seasoned,
- sempervirent,
- senectuous,
- senescent,
- senile,
- senior,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- superannuated,
- tempered,
- timeworn,
- tottery,
- tough,
- unfading,
- venerable,
- vital,
- white,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old
- decrepit
collapse
- lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" related words >
- aged,
- ancient,
- anile,
- antiquated,
- battered,
- beat-up,
- beaten up,
- bedraggled,
- broken-down,
- cast-off,
- childish,
- childlike,
- crabbed,
- creaking,
- creaky,
- crippled,
- crumbling,
- damaged,
- debilitated,
- decayed,
- decaying,
- derelict,
- deteriorated,
- dilapidated,
- disabled,
- disintegrating,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- doited,
- doting,
- down-at-heel,
- elderly,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fossilized,
- fragile,
- frail,
- gaga,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- haggard,
- impaired,
- in ruins,
- incapacitated,
- infirm,
- injured,
- insubstantial,
- marred,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- old,
- out of shape,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- poor,
- poorish,
- quavering,
- ragged,
- ramshackle,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run to seed,
- run-down,
- rusty,
- seedy,
- senescent,
- senile,
- shabby,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shriveled,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slummy,
- spoiled,
- stricken in years,
- superannuated,
- tacky,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- tumbledown,
- unfirm,
- unfit,
- unkempt,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsturdy,
- unsubstantial,
- used,
- wasted,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worn,
- worn out
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- aging,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contempt,
- contractive,
- contradiction,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declined,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despisal,
- despising,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dipping,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- disintegrating,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- doting,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- holding back,
- ignoring,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- nonobservance,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- passing by,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- receding,
- reductive,
- refusal,
- regressive,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retention,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- scouting,
- senescent,
- setting,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- spurning,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- throwing out,
- thumbs-down,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- turndown,
- turning out,
- unwillingness,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- withholding,
- worsening
- achromatization,
- aging,
- atmospherics,
- blackout,
- blanching,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- bleach,
- bleaching,
- blind spot,
- blocking,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- comedown,
- coming apart,
- corruptible,
- cracking,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- crumbling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- declining,
- decoloration,
- decolorization,
- decolorizing,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerate,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- dematerialization,
- demotion,
- departure,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deteriorating,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- diminishing,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- discoloration,
- disintegrating,
- dispersion,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- doting,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- draining,
- drift,
- drooping,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- eclipse,
- effete,
- effeteness,
- elimination,
- ephemeral,
- erasure,
- etiolation,
- evanescence,
- evanescent,
- evaporating,
- evaporation,
- extinction,
- fade-out,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling,
- falling-off,
- fickle,
- flagging,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- fragmenting,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- getting on,
- going,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- interference,
- involution,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- lightening,
- loss of tone,
- madder bleach,
- marcescent,
- market bleach,
- melting,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- noise,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- occultation,
- paling,
- passing,
- perishable,
- pining,
- receding,
- reception,
- regression,
- regressive,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrograde,
- retrogression,
- retrogressive,
- senescent,
- short-lived,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slippage,
- slipping,
- slump,
- slumping,
- static,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- volatile,
- wane,
- waning,
- wasting,
- whitening,
- wilting,
- wipe,
- withering,
- worsening
- Sanforizing,
- abscess,
- aging,
- ague,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backache,
- baneful,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- chill,
- chills,
- chronic ill health,
- colic,
- coming apart,
- constipation,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- convulsion,
- coughing,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cyanosis,
- deadly,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- decadent,
- declining,
- decrepitude,
- degenerate,
- delicacy,
- delicate health,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- diarrhea,
- disastrous,
- disintegrating,
- dizziness,
- doomful,
- doting,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropsy,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- ebbing,
- edema,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- enervation,
- exhaustion,
- fading,
- failing,
- fainting,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fatigue,
- feebleness,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- flagging,
- flux,
- fragility,
- fragmenting,
- frailty,
- fratricidal,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- growth,
- healthlessness,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypochondria,
- hypochondriasis,
- hypotension,
- icterus,
- ill health,
- indigestion,
- infirmity,
- inflammation,
- insomnia,
- internecine,
- invalidism,
- invalidity,
- itching,
- jaundice,
- labored breathing,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- marasmus,
- marcescent,
- morbidity,
- morbidness,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- pain,
- paralysis,
- parching,
- peakedness,
- pining,
- poor health,
- preshrinkage,
- pruritus,
- rash,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- rheum,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- sclerosis,
- searing,
- seizure,
- self-destructive,
- senescent,
- shock,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sickliness,
- sinking,
- skin eruption,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneezing,
- sore,
- spasm,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tabes,
- tabetic,
- tachycardia,
- thinning,
- tumor,
- unhealthiness,
- unsoundness,
- unwholesomeness,
- upset stomach,
- valetudinarianism,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- vertigo,
- vomiting,
- waning,
- wasteful,
- weakliness,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- sinking
collapse
- a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs"
- a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
- a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach" related words >
- Brownian movement,
- advance,
- aging,
- angular motion,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward,
- backward motion,
- bad,
- baptism,
- burial,
- career,
- climbing,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- concavity,
- course,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- current,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- deepening,
- degenerate,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- depressed,
- depression,
- descendant,
- descending,
- descent,
- desolate,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- deteriorating,
- detrusion,
- digging,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dip,
- dipping,
- disintegrating,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- done for,
- doting,
- dousing,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- down-trending,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- downward motion,
- draining,
- drift,
- driftage,
- drifting,
- drilling,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- engulfment,
- excavation,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flux,
- flying,
- forlorn,
- forward motion,
- fragmenting,
- fretful,
- getting on,
- given up,
- going,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- hauling down,
- heavy-laden,
- hollowness,
- hopeless,
- immergence,
- immersion,
- in articulo mortis,
- in extremis,
- incapable of life,
- inundation,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- languishing,
- low,
- lowering,
- marcescent,
- mining,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- mounting,
- mournful,
- near death,
- nervous,
- nonviable,
- oblique motion,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- passing,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- probing,
- progress,
- progressive,
- queasy,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- receding,
- reduction,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- refluent,
- reflux,
- regression,
- regressive,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogression,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- run,
- running,
- rush,
- rushing,
- sagging,
- senescent,
- set,
- setting,
- shaky,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sideward,
- sideward motion,
- sinkage,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- slumping,
- soaring,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sternway,
- stream,
- streaming,
- stricken,
- submergence,
- submerging,
- submersion,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tense,
- terminal,
- thrusting under,
- tottering,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- tumbledown,
- tunneling,
- uneasy,
- unquiet,
- up-trending,
- upward,
- upward motion,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- woeful,
- worsening
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