| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Descent to a lower level or condition: decadence, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration. See BETTER. | | VERB: | To become lower in quality, character, or condition: decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, retrograde, sink, worsen. Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed , go to the dogs. See BETTER.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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