n
(political economy) Adulteration; corruption.
adj
Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
n
(historic preservation) State of preservation where no attempt is made to improve a ruin, but rather to keep it from deteriorating any further.
n
An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
adj
(now rare) Tainted, corrupted.
n
the state or process of turning bestial; depravation, corruption, degradation, dehumanization
n
A biological hazard; a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.
adj
perishable, subject to decay
n
The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
n
The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering or degradation, especially in character or quality.
n
(international law, uncommon) The annihilation of a sovereign state through its complete destruction in a war.
n
The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
adj
Causing or relating to debilitation.
n
Obsolete form of debauchment. [The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.]
n
(music) The modification of a decad, typically to obtain a new series of consonant triads
n
A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
adj
Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
n
A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
n
The state or quality of being decayed.
n
(obsolete) The state of being deceived; hallucination.
n
the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
n
A person or thing considered to be defective.
n
(obsolete) disfiguration; mutilation
n
The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
n
Archaic spelling of deformity. [The state of being deformed.]
n
The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
n
The state or quality of being degenerate.
n
(uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
n
The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
adj
(chemistry) Causing a cell or organism to degrade.
n
The condition of being deliquescent.
n
The act of corrupting or subverting morale, discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in morale.
n
The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.
n
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
n
(uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
n
The state of being depreciated; disparagement.
n
A spoiling or ruining; destruction.
n
The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
n
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
n
A belief that things tend to grow progressively worse.
n
The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
n
(property law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.
v
To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.
n
(derogatory) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
n
(obsolete) The act of devouring.
n
(uncountable) The state or quality of being dilapidated.
n
The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
n
The act of disfiguring, spoiling the appearance of something or someone; the state of being disfigured.
n
The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured
n
The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
n
The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.
adj
(obsolete) devastated; laid waste
n
(colloquial) Various health problems and frailty observed in elderly people.
n
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
n
(obsolete) The act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
adj
(obsolete) perished; decayed
n
State of being enervated; debility.
n
The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization
adj
(obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
n
A deterioration or weakening
adj
Containing undesired intermixtures
n
The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
v
(transitive) To make invalid or affect with disease.
n
(rare) The act of shaking or weakening or the resulting state; overthrow, ruination.
adj
(figuratively) Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
n
The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
n
The state of withering or wasting; leanness; loss of flesh.
n
The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration.
n
pejoration; process of making or becoming worse
n
Absolute ruin; downfall.
n
The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.
n
(obsolete) destruction; perdition
n
The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
n
The act or process of pessimizing, or making something worse.
n
The state of being polluted.
n
Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.
adj
Obsolete form of poisonable. [Capable of being poisoned.]
n
Depredation or devastation.
adj
(physics) Having the capacity to repel.
n
The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
n
(art) An enthusiasm for appreciating ruins or sites of destruction.
adj
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
n
state of being morally degenerate or corrupt
n
The act or process of squandering; the state or quality of being squandered; dissipation; wastefulness.
adv
With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.
adj
Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
n
Devastation, laying waste.
n
Obsolete form of vitiation. [a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something]
n
(obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation.
adj
(colloquial, figuratively) Weakened or simplified
adj
(archaic) Causing widespread devastation.
n
deterioration of a property due to nearby changes.
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