| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A sudden drop to a lower condition or status: comedown, down, downfall, downgrade. See RISE. 3. A downward slope or distance: decline, declivity, drop, fall, pitch. See RISE. 4. A usually swift downward trend, as in prices: decline, dip, dive, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, drop-off, fall, nosedive, plunge, skid, slide, slump, tumble. See INCREASE. 5. The act of dropping from a height: drop, fall. See RISE.
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