Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Deterioration (2)
adj
(obsolete, rare) Wrested away.
v
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
v
(archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make worse; to injure or damage.
adj
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
v
To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
v
(transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
n
condescendence
adj
(obsolete) Tending to tear or pull up.
v
(transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
n
(international law) Debellation, the annihilation of a sovereign state through complete destruction in a war.
v
(transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.
v
(role-playing games, video games) To make a character or unit weaker.
n
destruction
v
(obsolete, rare) To decrease, wane.
adv
So as to deface.
v
(obsolete) To cause to fail.
v
(intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
n
(now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
n
(obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
adj
Changed in features; deformed.
n
An act or incidence of defecting.
adj
(obsolete) Full of defects; imperfect.
n
One who defenestrates.
adj
(obsolete) Flowing down; falling off.
n
(obsolete, law) A deforciant.
v
To mar the character or quality of (something).
v
To make defunct.
n
(obsolete) Death.
n
(obsolete) A challenge.
n
Obsolete spelling of defier
v
(intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”) [(intransitive, obsolete) To degenerate.]
n
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing degradation.
v
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
v
(chiefly computing) Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume.
n
(archaic) demolition
v
(dated) To erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.
v
To decrease the motivation of a person or a group.
n
(archaic) Loss; destruction
v
(intransitive, rare) To waste away; to deteriorate.
v
(transitive) To deprive of content; to deplete.
n
(metaphoric) The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.
v
(intransitive) To decline in value over time.
n
An act or instance of deranging.
n
The act by which something is derated.
v
(intransitive) To remove a part, to detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
v
(transitive) To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner.
n
The results of a destructive event.
v
(transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
adj
Tending to detract or draw.
n
Depreciation.
v
(obsolete, rare) To deprive of beauty or grace.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make difficult.
v
(transitive) To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
n
One who dilapidates; a person causing dilapidation.
n
(archaic) disruption
v
To deprive of ornaments.
v
(transitive) To deprive of rank or status.
v
(transitive) To make the cause of disorder.
v
(transitive, rare) to make worse.
v
(transitive) To discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make unlike; to disguise.
v
(transitive) To separate (a pair).
n
One who, or that which, disqualifies.
v
(obsolete) To disarrange.
v
Obsolete form of disarray. [(transitive) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.]
v
(obsolete) To unsettle.
n
(obsolete) emaciation
v
Obsolete form of impair. [(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.]
n
One who, or that which, enfeebles or weakens.
n
The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance.
n
(obsolete) The removal of the shoes.
adj
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
v
(transitive, figuratively) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
v
(transitive) to make imperfect
v
To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
v
(obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
v
(transitive) To belittle.
v
(transitive) To make malign or malignant.
v
(intransitive) To lose vitality.
v
To become obsolete.
v
To render slow; to check; to curb.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To impair, to make worse.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become worse; to deteriorate or to worsen.
n
(rare) One who perishes.
n
The act of perishing.
v
(intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.
adj
Tending or able to repel; driving back.
adj
Repulsive; driving back.
n
(law) The intentional destruction of or tampering with (a document) in such way as to impair evidentiary effect.
v
(transitive) To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.
v
(transitive) To deprive of beauty; to make ugly.
v
(transitive) To mar or destroy the perfection of.
n
That which vitiates.
adj
Reduced; made less strong.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
v
(transitive) To make worse; to impair.

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