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Adjective
▲
Deteriorating in quality or condition
deteriorating
fading
failing
falling
getting worse
waning
weakening
declining
dwindling
dying
expiring
moribund
disappearing
doomed
diminishing
decreasing
going
near death
sinking fast
fated
fading fast
mortal
perishing
in extremis
near the end
breathing your last
done for
on your deathbed
at death's door
not long for this world
with one foot in the grave
failing rapidly
passing
vanishing
mortally ill
hazy
paling
evanescent
at the end of the rope
on your last legs
having one foot in the grave
on one's deathbed
on one's last leg
one foot in the grave
on the decline
growing dimmer
ebbing
sinking
foundering
subsiding
closing
decaying
ultimate
ending
withering
terminally ill
passing away
disintegrating
giving up the ghost
becoming extinct
in the jaws of death
on last leg
on the point of death
one foot in grave
at end of rope
Adjective
▲
Directed or moving backwards
retrogressive
backward
declining
degenerating
deteriorating
getting worse
reverting
astern
behind
inverted
rearward
regressive
retrograde
negative
unwelcome
downhill
unprogressive
degenerate
reverse
for the worse
retreating
downward
backwards
relapsing
inverse
waning
degenerative
catabolic
receding
reversing
BWD
behind one
to the rear
towards the rear
to the back
towards the back
back to front
stupid
arrested
delayed
late
checked
imbecile
moronic
feeble-minded
dense
subnormal
dull
underprivileged
in the wrong direction
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Characterized by or causing degeneration
degenerative
backward
deteriorating
progressive
regressive
retrogressive
wasting
declinatory
depressive
dwindling
frittering
deleterious
Adjective
▲
Not capable of being repaired, cured, regained, or undone
irremediable
irreversible
irredeemable
irreparable
hopeless
incurable
irrecoverable
irretrievable
unrecoverable
unredeemable
unsalvageable
deadly
fatal
final
incorrigible
irreformable
mortal
terminal
unmitigable
remediless
bad
cureless
gone
helpless
impossible
irrevocable
lost
sad
ill-fated
beyond redress
beyond recall
past hope
beyond repair
no-win
up the creek
compulsive
obsessive
pathological
shameless
bred-in-the-bone
ingrained
obsessional
long-established
committed
thorough
thoroughgoing
deep-rooted
obdurate
seasoned
through and through
entrenched
utter
hooked
dedicated
devoted
loyal
staunch
faithful
steadfast
remorseless
ineradicable
card-carrying
unregenerate
unremorseful
unrepenting
deep-seated
unabashed
unblushing
brazen
regular
out-and-out
conscienceless
uncontrollable
unswerving
accustomed
obstinate
full-bore
true blue
unfaltering
right-down
arrant
congenital
true
uncompromising
recurrent
mad keen
die-hard
keen as mustard
well-established
addictive
reprobate
dependent
incessant
frequent
callous
defiant
relentless
through-and-through
driven
infixed
full-fledged
instilled
deep-down
genuine
irresistible
hardhearted
recidivistic
deeply ingrained
impulsive
by habit
to the core
out and out
without regret
without remorse
prevalent
recurring
fallen
besetting
not contrite
wretched
cursed
accursed
condemned
afflicted
vulnerable
aimless
excommunicated
past praying for
blighted
alone
rooted
deep
perennial
lifelong
intrenched
devout
resolute
ardent
proved
fervent
earnest
vehement
stalwart
unyielding
wholehearted
fiery
torrid
unshakable
fanatical
intransigent
longtime
supreme
stubborn
zealous
inexorable
explicit
staid
inured
habituated
sicker
bona fide
hard-line
all-consuming
firmly established
well established
deep-set
red-hot
hard-shell
irrepressible
undying
eternal
dyed-in-the wool
more ❯
Noun
▲
The process of becoming progressively worse
aggravation
decline
degeneration
deterioration
descent
decay
fall
lapse
retrogression
relapse
drop
decadence
devolution
downturn
declension
degradation
collapse
downgrade
degeneracy
downfall
ebb
slide
weakening
regression
debasement
backsliding
ebbing
decaying
waning
slump
ruination
downslide
depression
defeat
skid
demise
down
flameout
undoing
end
step down
backslide
recidivation
overthrow
cut
nose dive
impoverishment
malfunction
miscarriage
foundering
death
diminishing
halt
cessation
disruption
interruption
vanquishing
disorganizationUS
rupture
seizure
termination
folding
stoppage
downward spiral
nonsuccess
disorganisationUK
nonachievement
bankruptcy
shutdown
fizzle
fall-off
lack of success
downtick
non-function
breaking down
downgrading
reoffending
habit
reoffense
tendency
depravation
demotion
dropoff
reversing
rotation
reversal
inversion
deficiency
exhaustion
enervation
devitalization
attenuation
immiseration
undermining
marring
cutback
dilution
curtailment
precipitation
sag
declivity
spill
landslide
pathos
anticlimax
discomfiture
cadence
downcome
dropping off
let-up
downhill trend
subsiding
flagging
de-escalation
slackening
easing
disgrace
subsidence
petering out
fading away
unseating
sweep
withdrawal
dying down
refluence
reflux
backflow
retroflux
dying away
dying out
conquest
annihilation
toppling
ousting
Waterloo
deposition
elimination
comeuppance
nemesis
labefaction
bane
debacle
doom
low water
low tide
outward flow
rack and ruin
road to ruin
loss of power
loss of status
loss of prosperity
more ❯
Noun
▲
The intensified severity of or in something
increase
exacerbation
aggravation
amplification
enhancement
intensification
boom
elevation
escalation
heightening
magnification
mushrooming
snowballing
upswing
augmentation
expansion
rise
enlargement
upsurge
compounding
acceleration
build-up
extension
widening
deterioration
strengthening
sharpening
developing
buildout
stepping-up
hike
ascent
climb
buildup
inflation
upgrade
jump
appreciation
bump
accrual
uptick
burgeoning
uptrend
intensifying
multiplication
proliferation
spike
accumulation
cumulation
aggrandizementUS
spread
explosion
swelling
swell
raise
creep
aggrandisementUK
run-up
piling up
step up
stacking up
upward turn
addendum
addition
supplement
waxing
distention
accession
accretion
distension
crescendo
bounce
quadrupling
doubling
lengthening
tripling
plus
avalanche
upgrading
ascension
lift
raising
stimulation
advancement
soaring
creation
rising
ascendance
improvement
towering
soar
promotion
move up
ramp up
upward movement
jump up
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state or quality of being degenerate
degeneracy
corruption
decadence
depravity
dissoluteness
corruptness
dissipation
immorality
perversion
turpitude
pervertedness
debauchery
degradation
dissolution
profligacy
wickedness
baseness
debasement
decline
decrease
evil
libertinism
sin
vice
abjection
decadency
decay
degenerateness
degeneration
demoralisationUK
demoralizationUS
deterioration
dissipatedness
lasciviousness
lecherousness
lechery
lewdness
libertinage
libidinousness
licentiousness
moral decay
promiscuity
rakishness
sinfulness
ungodliness
wantonness
depravation
intemperance
abasement
inferiority
lack of morals
lack of principles
meanness
poorness
desecration
fault
wrongness
fraud
racket
defilement
wrongfulness
felony
illegality
profanation
sacrilege
unlawfulness
infringement
relaxation
relaxedness
infraction
pollution
tort
misdemeanorUS
breach
case
caper
misdemeanourUK
overconsumption
unlawful act
delictum
fast one
delict
uninhibitedness
thoughtlessness
impulse
disregard
freedom
spontaneity
unfairness
rottenness
cruelty
mercilessness
ruthlessness
trickery
imposture
duplicity
swindling
deceit
cheating
deception
chicanery
culpability
deviation
abnormality
knavishness
guiltiness
corrupting
poisoning
poison
warping
unnaturalness
swearing
permissiveness
luxury
contravention
sleaziness
abusiveness
fruitiness
strong language
bad language
indecorum
lotus-eating
intemperateness
break
sneak
hit
job
indiscrimination
laxness
discourtesy
besmirching
sullying
licence
charge
debt
misdoing
error
contaminant
adulterant
pollutant
mortal sin
illicitness
illegitimacy
clandestineness
fallenness
imperfection
foible
pursuit of pleasure
high living
erotism
pederasty
satyriasis
boorishness
grubbiness
incontinency
ruttishness
pruriency
violation of the law
illegal act
breach of the law
injury
infraction of the law
damnation
covetousness
sloth
demerit
disobedience
pride
high life
pleasure
lack of self-restraint
harm
destruction
ruin
damage
befoulment
overeating
skimming
extortion
misrepresentation
squeeze
payola
jobbery
shuffle
nepotism
exploitation
graft
bestiality
payoff
bribery
fiddling
bribing
fraudulency
profiteering
debauch
gorging
surfeit
greed
overdrinking
shady deal
breach of trust
on the take
overkill
satiety
excesses
spoiling
satiation
gourmandise
extreme behavior
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to decline or deteriorate in state
declining
degenerating
deteriorating
sinking
decaying
ebbing
regressing
retrogressing
sliding
slipping
slumping
weakening
atrophying
crumbling
descending
devolving
falling off
getting worse
lapsing
retrograding
rotting
waning
becoming worse
growing worse
nosediving
corroding
damaging
degrading
depressing
diminishing
disintegrating
going downhill
impairing
lowering
going to pot
going down the toilet
going down the tubes
going to the dogs
hitting the skids
taking a nosedive
making something worse
going from bad to worse
taking a turn for the worse
going off
buckling
giving
falling in
yielding
toppling
mortifying
imploding
going out
coming to pieces
curdling
necrotizing
sphacelating
succumbing
going mouldy
mildewing
coming down
toppling over
coming to bits
souring
cracking
suppurating
spalling
flopping
fragmentizing
bursting
becoming rotten
giving in
splitting up
going sour
going moldy
becoming rancid
tearing
coming unstuck
tarnishing
rusting
dying out
staving
crushing
sinking inwards
crashing in
settling
gangrening
stinking
necrosing
staving in
crashing
disappearing
thinning
caving
stumbling
gathering dust
giving out
acidifying
becoming rusty
maturating
gathering
ulcerating
losing control
freaking
cracking open
bursting apart
cracking apart
ducking
cratering
polluting
defiling
blighting
pejorating
discoloringUS
sapping
discolouringUK
becoming inflamed
becoming infected
destroying
rending
becoming sour
making rancid
fermenting
coming undone
cracking up
freaking out
having a breakdown
pashing
addling
becoming contaminated
hitting rock bottom
reaching depths
growing moldy
smashing to smithereens
breaking into pieces
smashing into smithereens
breaking to smithereens
breaking into tiny pieces
breaking into fragments
going rancid
becoming addled
becoming tainted
becoming useless
going rotten
falling flat
unravelingUS
going wrong
unravellingUK
swooning
becoming unconscious
conking out
fainting
passing out
going out like light
blacking out
losing consciousness
zonking out
keeling over
falling unconscious
going out like a light
flaking out
more ❯
“The security forces had to intervene to prevent the situation from worsening.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for make or become worse
aggravating
exacerbating
augmenting
complicating
compounding
heightening
increasing
inflaming
intensifying
magnifying
damaging
adding to
making worse
adding fuel to the fire
adding fuel to the flames
putting salt on the wound
amplifying
boosting
enhancing
escalating
expanding
extending
raising
enlarging
deepening
building up
swelling
reinforcing
stepping up
multiplying
advancing
spreading
ballooning
burgeoning
lifting
filling out
proliferating
appreciating
bourgeoning
lengthening
waxing
climbing
booming
stretching
refining
fleshing out
furthering
bettering
elaborating
gaining
perfecting
rolling up
thickening
polishing
protracting
incrementing
embellishing
building on
fortifying
adding
doubling
thriving
puffing up
fattening
flourishing
embroidering
helping
prospering
shooting up
elaborating on
amassing
optimizingUS
prolonging
evolving
optimisingUK
making strides
honing
becoming larger
uplifting
mounting up
enlarging on
making progress
making headway
adding detail to
adding flesh to
bloating
putting up
upsurging
parlaying
going up
eking out
stretching out
spinning out
expanding on
increasing in size
touching up
meliorating
blossoming
soaring
filling
updating
expatiating on
tripling
annexing
bulging
fine-tuning
working up
puffing out
accruing
boosting up
skyrocketing
blooming
elongating
spirallingUK
spiralingUS
completing
rounding out
maturing
rocketing
shaping up
bulking
marking up
expatiating
slapping on
tumefying
jumping
scaling up
intumescing
clarifying
timesing
bolstering
amending
putting flesh on the bones of
souping up
piling up
moving forward
brushing up
adjusting
overdoing
getting bigger
reforming
collecting
complementing
surging
gathering
pumping
explaining
straightening out
becoming bigger
quadrupling
increasing fourfold
detailing
overstating
pullulating
expounding
repeating
tacking on
modernizingUS
modernisingUK
transforming
revolutionizingUS
reenforcing
turning up
padding out
endowing
becoming wider
revolutionisingUK
jazzing up
coming on
becoming better
continuing
getting on
getting ahead
doubling up
going into detail
making longer
smartening up
moving ahead
going places
spreading out
working on
loudening
proceeding
forging ahead
revamping
correcting
swelling up
working out
rectifying
aiding
diversifying
stirring
sprouting
teeming
swarming
arising
making perfect
uprising
upscaling
accompanying
getting higher
hyperbolizing
piling
perking up
dignifying
leaping
increasing twofold
growing fat
making louder
ennobling
animating
putting flesh on
poking
unfolding
getting fat
succeeding
buttressing
billowing
mending
improving on
growing louder
puffing
bumping
fattening up
getting heavier
gaining weight
growing fatter
becoming distended
ratcheting up
increasing in scope
enskying
deifying
enthroning
canonizingUS
glorifying
enshrining
rounding off
stockpiling
spinning
coming along
becoming louder
fulfilling
bringing alive
doing well
pushing
leaping up
invigorating
opening
awakening
driving forward
moving forward in leaps and bounds
smartening
bunching
coming of age
putting on weight
forwarding
driving
blowing out
drawing
springing up
vitalizing
opening out
filling up
cramming
rallying
reaching
envigorating
going off
finishing
pushing up
being successful
faring well
getting stronger
canonisingUK
honouringUK
honoringUS
going
benefitting
benefiting
stacking up
speeding up
dragging out
plumping
polishing up
ripening
producing
increasing exponentially
drawing out
giving substance to
scoring
flying high
prolongating
letting out
going up in the world
strining out
going great guns
hitting it big
moving up
stocking up
going forward
decreasing
highlighting
revising
uprating
economizingUS
husbanding
breeding
upraising
revaluing
coloringUS
contributing
stroking
recuperating
editing
purifying
emending
propagating
peaking
making up
chipping in
following up
distorting
making higher
surging up
fudging
overdrawing
growing stronger
welling
fast-tracking
branching out
assisting
bolding
advertizing
advertising
revitalizingUS
turning the corner
modifying
taking off
setting right
duplicating
outspreading
outstretching
underlining
crescendoing
bulking up
supporting
shoring
backing up
giving a boost
bracing
breadthening
opening up
reaming
candying
tending
revitalisingUK
exploding
tightening up
tempering
ramping up
increasing in weight
getting larger
getting taller
colouringUK
growing in
enforcing
pulling out
coarsening
luxuriating
growing rapidly
pouring
raining
overrunning
becoming large
starting to be
getting to
growing full
increasing slightly
smoothing
propelling
illuming
burnishing
fetching up
sending through the roof
goosing up
retracing
adding value
becoming more powerful
fixing up
changing for the better
transcending
excelling
going through the roof
developing rapidly
bucking up
protruding
bellying
supplying
subsidisingUK
topping
subsidizingUS
appending
inserting
stuffing
becoming fatter
becoming fat
dwelling on
spinning off
elucidating
becoming greater
issuing
extending one's operations
broadening one's horizons
shoring up
dressing up
growing loud
practicingUS
grooming
preparing
bursting
bursting forth
detonating
eking
economisingUK
cubing
squaring
generating
populating
aggregating
manifolding
jumboizing
diffusing
gaining ground
getting better
taking steps forward
moving on
assuaging
mitigating
fixing
redressing
remediating
ensuing
flowing
following
making richer
commenting
particularizingUS
making broader
making wider
protuberating
becoming broader
feeding
rekindling
adding fuel to
keeping burning
shining
unfurling
disentangling
explicating
becoming thicker
making thicker
making deeper
becoming deeper
becoming longer
pooching
projecting
bagging
pouting
overhanging
starting
beetling
jutting
pouching
discussing
specifying
decorating
becoming more numerous
ageingUK
agingUS
growing up
overplaying
dramatizingUS
growing bigger
dualizing
duping
replicating
ornamenting
devising
garnishing
interpreting
becoming loud
shifting upward
practisingUK
ticking upward
fluctuating upward
making real
overestimating
growing larger
giving details
hopping up
straightening up
preferring
particularisingUK
standing out
becoming inflated
becoming bloated
blistering
sticking out
engorging
overemphasizingUS
sublimating
playing out
enlivening
turning over new leaf
making first rate
multiplying by two
adding fuel to fire
hoisting
appointing
favouringUK
titivating
favoringUS
inspiriting
advantaging
welling up
dramatisingUK
surcharging
overemphasisingUK
working
panning out
transitioning
flowering
amplifying upon
going into detail on
going on about
extending upon
expanding upon
arousing
stoking up
becoming swollen
getting somewhere
spreading one's wings
running riot
making inroads
getting places
improving the position of
raising high
giving a higher rank
giving promotion
improving the status of
moving up the ladder
giving advancement
giving advancement to
kicking upstairs
crowning
suiting
moving
changing
unrolling
arriving
kindling
stacking
stretching the truth
driving up
altering
emerging
metamorphosing
putting fuel on
sprucing up
adding value to
giving a lift to
encouraging the growth of
giving a facelift to
giving a boost to
doing up
contributing to
transmogrifying
heading
differentiating
adapting
making a big thing out of
blowing out of all proportion
blowing up out of all proportion
going well
wakening
inciting
shooting
educing
deriving
speeding
trucking
going with
concluding
capping
integrating
accomplishing
consummating
harmonizing with
achieving
clinching
making it
getting on well
growing vigorously
marching on
adapting yourself
pressing on
pushing on
pushing ahead
moving onward
going forth
pushing forward
working one's way
covering ground
pressing forward
pulling ahead
empowering
sparking
triggering
mounding
storing
growing quickly
making good
becoming rich
hoarding
pacing
getting along
activating
firing
inspiring
titillating
tempting
galvanizingUS
applauding
overvaluing
distinguishing
boasting
bragging
commending
acclaiming
praising
doing wonders
striking it rich
getting on in the world
turning out well
growing rich
making good speed
making the big time
making money
striking gold
battening
hitting the jackpot
making out
making a killing
going to town
bearing
striking oil
becoming wealthy
catching on
feathering nest
doing all right for oneself
bearing fruit
yielding
making mark
getting there
living the life of Riley
topping off
adding the finishing touch to
adding the final touch to
making up for
assembling
piquing
prompting
levelling up
leveling up
making much of
banking
dilating upon
going into detail about
dilating on
enlarging upon
making a stack of
challenging
grouping
making a mound of
depositing
heaping
galvanisingUK
lumping
waking
storing up
making a pile of
massing
layering
dumping
arranging
more ❯
“The proposed bank restructuring will dramatically worsen this economic situation.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to have a diminishing effect on
impairing
damaging
harming
marring
spoiling
reducing
injuring
undermining
vitiating
weakening
blunting
decreasing
diminishing
hindering
lessening
debilitating
deteriorating
compromising
enervating
enfeebling
blemishing
bloodying
breaking
crabbing
crippling
defacing
disabling
disfiguring
endamaging
flawing
hurting
impeding
threatening
blighting
cheapening
debasing
destroying
devaluating
devaluing
dinging
disqualifying
invalidating
prejudicing
queering
ruining
tarnishing
totalling
totaling
tweaking
unfitting
crossing up
fouling up
losing strength
making useless
messing up
roughing up
putting the kibosh on
subverting
sabotaging
sapping
destabilizingUS
thwarting
destabilisingUK
disrupting
shaking
corroding
foiling
torpedoing
having a bad effect on
driving a nail into the coffin of
undoing
pulling the rug out from under
demolishing
demeaning
minimizingUS
belittling
minimisingUK
detracting
undercutting
chipping away
botching
jeopardizingUS
whittling away
disempowering
eating away
demoralisingUK
tunnelingUS
digging
sandbagging
softening
emasculating
challenging
demoralizingUS
mining
frustrating
tunnellingUK
wearing
attenuating
denting
ravaging
impoverishing
digging out
hollowing out
dragging through the mud
trashing
annihilating
dismantling
corrupting
crushing
incapacitating
wounding
afflicting
depressing
devitalizing
queering the pitch of
chipping away at
clipping one's wings
poking full of holes
inconveniencing
shattering
blasting
withering
shocking
smashing
scorching
battering
knocking the bottom out of
throwing a spanner in the works of
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
screwing up
lousing up
shaking up
detracting from
jeopardisingUK
interfering with
smashing up
taking out
mucking up
causing detriment to
wreaking havoc on
doing harm to
putting out of action
throwing a monkey wrench into
putting out of commission
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to cripple or weaken an element of a video game during its development
nerfing
crippling
debuffing
deteriorating
degenerating
gimping
Verb
▲
Present participle for to become, or cause to become, bitter or disenchanted
embittering
envenoming
alienating
angering
antagonisingUK
antagonizingUS
poisoning
souring
disaffecting
disillusioning
empoisoning
frustrating
jaundicing
making bitter
making resentful
vexing
aggravating
discouraging
dissatisfying
exacerbating
exasperating
rankling
acerbating
acidulating
annoying
bittering
bothering
estranging
irritating
making rancorous
upsetting
venoming
Verb
▲
Present participle for to reduce to dishonour or disgrace
degrading
demeaning
cheapening
debasing
disgracing
humbling
humiliating
shaming
abasing
corrupting
discrediting
injuring
prostituting
devaluing
dishonouringUK
mortifying
perverting
reducing
bastardisingUK
bastardizingUS
cankering
chastening
damaging
debauching
demoralisingUK
demoralizingUS
depraving
deteriorating
dishonoringUS
fouling
harming
lessening
lowering
marring
poisoning
profaning
sinking
smirching
subverting
vitiating
warping
brutalisingUK
brutalizingUS
dehumanisingUK
dehumanizingUS
desensitisingUK
desensitizingUS
impairing
spoiling
undermining
weakening
belittling
bemeaning
benching
bumping
declassing
decrying
deposing
derogating
destroying
detracting
diminishing
disbarring
disparaging
panning
slamming
taking down
bringing shame to
casting down
cutting down
lowering the status of
putting down
ruling out
running down
shooting down
tearing down
cutting down to size
taking down a peg
denigrating
staining
smearing
defaming
tarnishing
downgrading
dragging through the mud
blotting
besmirching
blackening
slandering
embarrassing
abusing
stigmatizingUS
befouling
slurring
demoting
maligning
bringing into disrepute
stigmatisingUK
ruining
libelingUS
libellingUK
bestializing
vilifying
breaking
knocking
rubbishing
bad-mouthing
deflating
calumniating
aspersing
deriding
crushing
slagging off
traducing
dragging through the mire
bringing shame on
besmearing
minimizingUS
censuring
abashing
bringing down
doing a hatchet job on
bringing discredit to
reproaching
desecrating
spotting
giving a bad name
ripping
dissing
giving a black eye
minimisingUK
busting
scandalizingUS
dragging down
violating
undervaluing
speaking ill of
blotching
blemishing
subduing
attacking
disrating
disrespecting
scandalisingUK
reflecting badly on
bringing low
bringing shame upon
squashing
ridiculing
trashing
infecting
deprecating
leading astray
animalizing
breathing on
showing up
discomfiting
tarring and feathering
reviling
making someone eat crow
taking down a peg or two
snubbing
discounting
owning
mocking
putting someone in their place
ripping up and down
slinging mud at
doing a number on
assailing
muckraking
detracting from
blistering
dumping on
casting aspersions on
trivializingUS
dismissing
writing off
defacing
putting to shame
hurting
showing in a bad light
making someone eat humble pie
underestimating
quashing
scorning
despoiling
casting a slur on
running smear campaign
flinging mud at
spreading scandal about
chagrining
minifying
vilipending
slating
pooh-poohing
trivialisingUK
trash-talking
blighting
stooping
insulting
putting in a bad light
dirtying
seducing
roasting
pulling apart
playing down
betraying
distorting
making a fool of
taking to pieces
crying down
descending
giving a bad name to
having a go at
blackening the name of
crippling
underrating
embittering
wasting
downplaying
relegating
depressing
discoloringUS
discolouringUK
making degenerate
lowering in rank
lowering in status
treating lightly
blaspheming
devaluating
confounding
flattening
outraging
misprizing
scorching
impugning
sneering at
scoffing at
doing down
pulling down
causing to lose face
tarring
bringing dishonour to
pouring scorn on
making light of
marking down
influencing
picking holes in
kissing off
talking down
holding cheap
hitting out at
treating sacrilegiously
treating with disrespect
messing up
cutting to the quick
making ashamed
misusing
cowing
disfiguring
selling out
prejudicing
vanquishing
enfeebling
overcoming
condemning
dropping
deflowering
ravishing
envenoming
compromising
sapping
taming
criticizingUS
squelching
decreasing
slighting
bashing
ravaging
laughing off
laughing at
attainting
exposing
affronting
disfavouring
disfavoring
vandalizingUS
attenuating
discountenancing
criticisingUK
disconsidering
confusing
maculating
axing
reducing to the ranks
flaming
upsetting
vandalisingUK
committing sacrilege
reducing in importance
disconcerting
disobliging
reflecting negatively
displeasing
cursing
vituperating
annoying
mucking up
sneering
vexing
reflecting on
reducing the status of
writing down
appalling
speaking badly of
pulling to pieces
damaging the reputation of
blackening the reputation of
having the last laugh on
muddying the reputation of
making lose face
taking the wind out of someone's sails
getting the better of
casting in a bad light
harming the reputation of
misapplying
deigning
condescending
misemploying
twisting
biasingUS
biassingUK
squandering
sacrificing
selling
flawing
mongrelizing
colouringUK
crawling
unsettling
skewing
bending
endamaging
wrecking
subjugating
souring
badmouthing
subordinating
crabbing
bloodying
speckling
jaundicing
branding
rotting
demolishing
disdaining
blackguarding
hardening
disabling
debilitating
blasting
turning
touching
revaluing
devalorizing
selling short
curbing
deforming
rusting
inflicting
consuming
making impure
reducing in rank
criticizing unfairly
rapping
casting a slur
crossing up
destabilizingUS
undercutting
manipulating
sabotaging
toughening
blaming
falling
declining
dragging someone's name through the mud
dragging through mud
slinging mud
softening
restraining
disciplining
delegating
taking apart
letting down
cutting
corroding
silencing
making someone feel ashamed
making uncomfortable
cutting rate
nosing dive
knocking off
spreading lies about
reverting
setting back
coloringUS
repressing
checking
afflicting
putting away
striking dumb
offending
succumbing
tearing into
putting hooks in
raping
dispiriting
defeating
kicking downstairs
throwing mud at
sullying the reputation of
bad mouthing
ripping up
blackening the character of
giving black eye
popping one's balloon
making eat dirt
putting one away
soring
ulcering
scourging
taking to bits
beating down
losing value
rendering worthless
fornicating
inveigling
intriguing
fraternisingUK
luring
tempting
fraternizingUS
case-hardening
inuring
molesting
shooting
puncturing
disesteeming
bringing into disfavour
making one feel small
bringing down a peg
smashing
overwhelming
overpowering
wounding
slashing
darning
hoodooing
vicing
voodooing
swearing
cussing
destabilisingUK
forcing to eat humble pie
incapacitating
suppressing
moving down
stripping someone of their rank
coarsening
frowning upon
blowing up
slowing
dipping
putting in your place
wasting away
going to hell
living in the gutter
going bad
lowering oneself
debasing oneself
lowering yourself
demeaning oneself
demeaning yourself
debasing yourself
bringing to naught
impoverishing
extinguishing
keeping down
committing sin
doing wrong
talking dirty
making callous
making unfeeling
knocking bottom out of
poking full of holes
disappointing
taking rug out from under
putting double whammy on
scuzzing up
pillaging
depredating
desolating
devouring
devastating
sacking
spoliating
enervating
routing
spurning
rebuffing
barbarizing
automating
imbruting
automatizing
robotizing
mechanisingUK
mechanizingUS
ignoring
miscalling
shunning
slapping
causing offence to
sledging
calling someone names
blaspheming against
flustering
nonplussing
rattling
fazing
making foul
muddying
griming
begriming
horrifying
scoffing
slanging
teasing
treating disrespectfully
cutting dead
hurting someone's feelings
provoking
stepping on one's toes
calling names
taunting
girding
jeering
flouting
aggravating
irritating
giving someone the cold-shoulder
giving offence to
smudging
bringing to ruin
causing instability
putting someone to shame
taking the wind out
worrying
getting one's comeuppance
laying waste to
committing sacrilege against
harassing
withering
bringing someone to their knees
spattering
splashing
getting dirty
disregarding
understating
dispraising
distaining
bemiring
splattering
gauming
daubing
miring
mucking
losing face
making dirty
getting filthy
making filthy
pooh poohing
crumbing
mussing
bedraggling
making mucky
messing
mussing up
causing to feel small
putting out of countenance
taking a swipe at
shooting full of holes
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Verb
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Present participle for to fluctuate from one condition, form, level or state to another
changing
fluctuating
vacillating
varying
veering
deviating
differing
morphing
mutating
seesawing
snapping
teetering
wavering
bettering
deteriorating
diminishing
reversing
turning around
diverting
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