Usually means: Degradation of a word's meaning.
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  1. pejoration: Merriam-Webster
  2. pejoration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pejoration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pejoration: Wordnik
  5. pejoration: Wiktionary
  6. pejoration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pejoration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. pejoration: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pejoration: Dictionary.com
  10. Pejoration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pejoration: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pejoration: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pejoration)

noun:  The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration.
noun:  (linguistics) Any process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning.

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