Usually means: Repetitive pattern worsening initial problem.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. vicious cycle: Merriam-Webster
  2. vicious cycle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vicious cycle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vicious cycle: Vocabulary.com
  5. vicious cycle: Wiktionary
  6. vicious cycle: Dictionary.com
  7. Vicious Cycle (album), Vicious Cycle, Vicious cycle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. vicious cycle: Rhymezone
  9. vicious cycle: FreeDictionary.org
  10. vicious cycle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. vicious cycle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious cycle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious cycle: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vicious cycle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vicious cycle)

noun:  Alternative form of vicious circle [A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.]

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