vitiation
61deterioration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Growing worse Nouns 1. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb (see decrease); decline, declension; relapse, backsliding (see regression); recession; rust belt. 2. (moral deterioration) degeneracy,… …
62perversion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. distortion, misuse, misrepresentation, misconstruction; corruption, debasement. See deterioration, impiety, impurity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A distortion] Syn. involution, regression, abuse; see… …
63Deterioration — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deterioration >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deterioration deterioration debasement Sgm: N 1 wane wane ebb Sgm: N 1 recession recession &c. 287 Sgm: N 1 retrogradation retrogradation &c. 283 …
64vitiate — [ vɪʃɪeɪt] verb formal spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of. ↘destroy or impair the legal validity of. Derivatives vitiation noun vitiator noun Origin C16: from L. vitiat , vitiare impair …
65abasement — n. 1. Depression, detrusion, reduction, lowering, fall, deterioration, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, vitiation, perversion, depravation. 2. Abjectness, abjection, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness, ignominy …
66corruption — n. 1. Putrefaction, putrescence. 2. Defilement, contamination, pollution, infection, vitiation, adulteration, debasement. 3. Depravity, depravation, wickedness, demoralization, immorality, laxity, looseness of morals, want of principle. 4.… …
67debasement — n. 1. Deterioration, vitiation, adulteration, perversion. 2. Abasement, degradation, humiliation, depravation, corruption, pollution, contamination, defilement …
68degradation — n. 1. Dishonor, disgrace, humiliation. 2. Deterioration, abasement, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, caducity, decline, vitiation, perversion. 3. (Geol.) Wearing away (of rocks, etc.), abrasion …
69depravation — n. 1. Vitiation, corruption, deterioration, abasement, debasement, impairing, injury. 2. Depravity, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration, debasement, impairment, impaired condition …
70depression — n. 1. Abasement, degradation, deterioration, debasement, perversion, vitiation, depravation. 2. Hollow, hollowness, cavity, concavity, indentation, dent, dint, dimple, excavation, pit. 3. Dejection, dejectedness, sadness, despondency, melancholy …
