deterioration :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

impairment

n. a symptom of reduced quality or strength

worsening, decline in quality

n. process of changing to an inferior state

corruption, putrescence, rottenness, putridness

n. in a state of progressive putrefaction

decline

n. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

failure

n. lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure"

deficiency, want, lack

n. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"

decline, decay

n. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

inadequacy, insufficiency, deficiency

n. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

force, strength, forcefulness

n. physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

depression, dent, indentation

n. the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions

crash, collapse

n. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

turkey, bomb, dud

n. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

bankruptcy

n. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"

degeneration

n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

corruption

n. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

dissolution, disintegration

n. separation into component parts

regression

n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

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