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worsening

n. changing something with the result that it becomes worse

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worsening

adj. changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm"

decay, decline

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

insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency

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

force, forcefulness, strength

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"

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, failure

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, devolution

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)

dissolving, dissolution

n. the process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water"

regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression

n. 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)

incremental

adj. increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions; "lecturers enjoy...steady incremental growth in salary"

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bettering

adj. changing for the better

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